Opinion: Correcting injustice is the key work of state's appellate defenders
Detroit News | December 2025
On December 25, 2025, SADO Director Marilena David published an op-ed in the Detroit News, explaining how SADO team members work to uncover wrongful convictions, and chronicling some of the wrongful convictions we've found.
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