From the Associated Press — Governor Gretchen Whitmer has turned down a request to release a man who insists he was wrongly convicted of murder in a college parking lot in Port Huron in 1986. Whitmer’s staff notified Temujin Kensu’s lawyer last week. Kensu, also known as Fred Freeman, has been serving a life sentence since 1987. Kensu insists he was 400 miles away in the Upper Peninsula
when Scott Macklem was killed. Alibi witnesses backed him up. But the prosecutor summoned a pilot to suggest Kensu could have committed the murder and then dashed back to Escanaba by private plane. Separately, Kensu’s case is being reviewed by the attorney general’s office.
