Law students who regularly work to exonerate people who have spent decades in prison are now involved in a much smaller case. It's the theft of 12 beers from a suburban Detroit restaurant. The Innocence Clinic at University of Michigan law school is asking a judge to throw out the misdemeanor conviction of Richard Leach. He served 90 days in jail in 2019. The clinic says it obtained a confession from the real culprit. The Oakland County prosecutor’s office also believes the conviction should be erased from his record. But the case was handled by an attorney for the village of Lake Orion, not the county. There's no indication what the village will do.
