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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.

You can read the full op-ed here. And you can visit our Innocence Resources page here.

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