A Michigan Man Spent Decades in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit — But Who Was the Real Killer?
The former auto worker had long insisted he was innocent of the crime, but authorities and jurors did not believe him. Eventually, after numerous denied appeals, Phillips would be vindicated. In 2010, more than 30 years after he was sent to prison for life for fatally shooting Gregory Harris in Detroit, Phillips’ co-defendant, Richard Polombo, came clean, acknowledging someone else shot had Harris in the head. Polombo identified the shooter as the prosecution’s star witness, Fred Mitchell, and suggested Mitchell had taken deliberate steps designed to frame Phillips....