Justice Denied for Decades: Detroit Man Freed After Rogue Cop’s Coerced Confession Uncovered

For over a quarter century, George Calicut Jr. was shackled not just by prison bars but by a gross miscarriage of justice that underscores a disturbing reality about law enforcement and prosecutorial practices too often overlooked in America’s urban centers. On Tuesday, the 56-year-old Detroit man was finally freed after prosecutors acknowledged that his so-called confession to the 1999 murder of Virgie Perkins was the product of coercion by Barbara Simon, a now-retired Detroit homicide detective whose actions have tainted countless cases. Calicut had maintained his innocence throughout his life sentence—convicted without witnesses or physical evidence linking him to the...