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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
In fulfilling its mission and vision, Proving Innocence collaborates with others dedicated to addressing wrongful convictions and relies on a thorough screening process to determine that the individual's claim of innocence is credible and can be substantiated upon rigorous investigation.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
In fulfilling its mission and vision, Proving Innocence collaborates with others dedicated to addressing wrongful convictions and relies on a thorough screening process to determine that the individual's claim of innocence is credible and can be substantiated upon rigorous investigation.
PROVINGINNOCENCE
Temujin Kensu
(aka., Fredrick Freeman)
Latest News at the top of this page. For background information, go to Articles and Video Series
Paula and Temujin Kensu at their wedding.
Nov 2022 - Read Temujin's Application for Clemency and its Appendices
May 2022 - Read the letter which says that the State will not recognize Temujin Kensu's innocence because of legal technicalities. Click here.
LATEST MEDIA
ON KENSU
Unjust and Unsolved has a new podcast on the Temujin Kensu case produced and moderated by Maggie Freleng. She did an excellent job of interviewing Temujin and explaining why and how he was wrongfully convicted.
CASE SUMMARY
With at least 10 witnesses stating that he was 450 miles away from the murder when it took place and with absolutely no physical evidence, he was convicted through a dubious, hypnotized witness, a wild unsubstantiated plane flight theory, and misconduct by the prosecutor who provided favors to a jailhouse snitch for false testimony. With these facts, no reasonable person would conclude he is guilty. Yet he has served more than three decades in prison.
See the 4-part podcast series by Undisclosed:
State v. Fred Freeman
Temujin Kensu's Facebook Page
CASE SUMMARY
With at least 10 witnesses stating that he was 450 miles away from the murder when it took place and with absolutely no physical evidence, he was convicted through a dubious, hypnotized witness, a wild unsubstantiated plane flight theory, and misconduct by the prosecutor who provided favors to a jailhouse snitch for false testimony. With these facts, no reasonable person would conclude he is guilty. Yet he has served more than three decades in prison.
See the 4-part podcast series by Undisclosed:
State v. Fred Freeman
Temujin Kensu's Facebook Page
CURRENT STATUS
Time in Prison
33 Years
Seeking Clemency
Kensu is planning to be among the first to make an application to the Michigan Attorney General’s new Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU), which will be reviewing and acting upon wrongful convictions in Michigan. There is optimism this process will finally free him since he is the “Poster Boy” for wrongful convictions -- about every factor and abuse causing a wrongful conviction happened to Kensu. A case like his is exactly why the CIU was created. It is the worst injustice of its kind and the best example of why Michigan needed such a body.
Court Rulings
In her ruling on his 2010 habeas (Fredrick Thomas Freeman v. Jan Trombley), Chief Judge Denise Page Hood stated that Kensu (Freeman) made a credible claim of actual innocence and he should be freed or given a new trial. In that decision, Hood concluded that Kensu was denied his constitutional right to testify, his defense counsel provided ineffective counsel and failed to call his primary alibi witness, and that Prosecutor Robert Cleland was guilty of misconduct in using the perjured testimony of a jailhouse snitch that he had to know was false and that testimony was crucial to obtaining the wrongful conviction. Unfortunately, the Sixth Circuit overruled Hood on purely procedural grounds (tardy filing) having nothing to do with his actual innocence. Further appeals to this date have not been successful.
CONTACT
TEMUJIN KENSU, #189355
Macomb Correctional Facility
34625 26 Mile Rd.
Lenox Township, MI 48048
Fred Freeman Contact Info
Articles and Videos - TK
PODCAST SERIES
State v. Fred Freeman - Episode 1 - Chuck Norris Action Jeans
State v. Fred Freeman - Episode 2 - Deus Ex Machina
State v. Fred Freeman - Addendum 1 - Flip Side
State v. Fred Freeman
- Episode 3 - Unjust Stewards
Undisclosed Podcase
State v. Fred Freeman - Episode 4 - Yakuza
State v. Fred Freeman - Addendum 2
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