And in April 2020, Harrington was released from prison after the Wayne County Conviction Integrity Unit determined he had been wrongfully convicted in the murder of a man in Inkster. "I was taught as a young child to dispel anger and bitterness and stuff that's wrongful to people like we were wrongfully convicted. It's the second annual toy giveaway Harrington has been behind since his release from prison. Harrington recalled conversations he had with Kenneth Nixon, whom the Wayne County CIU determined had been wrongfully convicted in a deadly firebombing in Detroit. In February 2003, Harrington and his co-defendant George Clark were convicted in the September 2002 murder of a man in Inkster.

Source: CNN December 24, 2021 08:30 UTC