ST JOSEPH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) – A former reserve police officer who was put in jail for lying in connection to the murder of a Southwest Michigan girl is being set free.
The perjury conviction for Ray McCann the second was reversed after a review of evidence showed police may have either lied or were wrong about a key piece of evidence against him. He sat behind bars for almost two years after pleading no-contest to lying about evidence in the 2007 murder of 11-year-old Jodi Parrack in Constantine.
McCann was set free with the help of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Center on Wrongful Conviction and the Michigan Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan.
Greg Swygert with the Center on Wrongful Conviction at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law says McCann’s conviction reversal will greatly improve his life.
Director David Moran from the U of M Law School’s Michigan Innocence clinic says the investigation into alleged perjury by McCann was botched.
Another man, Daniel Furlong, admitted to killing Parrack in 2015.
