The justice system is extremely broken.
Herbert Alford, a Black man from Michigan spent 5 years in prison after he was convicted of a murder he didn’t commit in 2016. The crazy thing is, it all could have been avoided if Hertz would have produced a receipt that would have cleared him according to The Root.
Alford was convicted of second-degree murder in 2016 in the shooting death of Michael Adams, White said.
The Hertz receipt showed Alford was renting a car at a Lansing-area airport around the time that Adams was shot, White said. He was killed in a Lansing neighborhood 20 minutes away from the airport.
WLNS reports that prosecutors said that Alford’s cell phone records showed he was driving to the airport in the moments after the shooting, but that evidence was never introduced in the case.
The conviction was thrown out and charges were finally dropped in 2020, after Alford had served nearly five years in prison and jail.
The murder happened in 2011 and the receipt was requested in 2015 which was finally produced in 2018. It then took 2 years for him to be exonerated.
For some reason, it took Hertz too long to produce the receipt that cleared him and he’s suing the company and seeking financial compensation for failing to produce the receipt in a timely manner.
Hopefully, he gets everything he’s owed and more.
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