PORT HURON (AP) -- A federal judge has overturned the murder conviction of a man serving life for a 1986 killing in a college parking lot in Port Huron.
Temujin Kensu was known back then as Fred Freeman. He says he didn't shoot Scott Macklem and was 400 miles away that day.
Judge Denise Page Hood last Thursday said Kensu's rights were violated by an ineffective trial lawyer and misconduct by the prosecutor.
The 52-page decision includes a reference to an informant who says he lied at the 1987 trial when he said Kensu had admitted the murder in the St. Clair County jail.
The Michigan attorney general's office can appeal the decision or give Kensu a new trial. He won't immediately be released from prison.
Published: Mon, Oct 18, 2010
