{"id":67938,"date":"2026-03-03T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/judge-erases-conviction-for-detroit-man-whom-police-coerced-to-confess-to-1999-murder\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:17:01","slug":"judge-erases-conviction-for-detroit-man-whom-police-coerced-to-confess-to-1999-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/judge-erases-conviction-for-detroit-man-whom-police-coerced-to-confess-to-1999-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge erases conviction for Detroit man whom police coerced to confess to 1999 murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Calicut Jr has been in prison for more than 25 years for murder, though there were no witnesses or evidence against him<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/detroit\">Detroit<\/a>-area judge erased a 1999 murder conviction Tuesday of a man who was serving a life prison sentence after prosecutors acknowledged his confession was coerced by a rogue police officer.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, recent DNA testing \u201cfurther supports the lack of any evidence\u201d connecting George Calicut Jr to the murder of Virgie Perkins at her Detroit home, the Wayne county prosecutor\u2019s office and his lawyers said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/03\/detroit-man-coerced-confession-overturned-conviction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Calicut Jr has been in prison for more than 25 years for murder, though there were no witnesses or evidence against him Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A Detroit-area judge erased a 1999 murder conviction Tuesday of a man who was serving a life &#8230; <a title=\"Judge erases conviction for Detroit man whom police coerced to confess to 1999 murder\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/judge-erases-conviction-for-detroit-man-whom-police-coerced-to-confess-to-1999-murder\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Judge erases conviction for Detroit man whom police coerced to confess to 1999 murder\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}