CENTREVILLE, MI (WTVB) – Lawyers at the Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan and Northwestern’s Center on Wrongful Convictions have filed a lengthy motion in St. Joseph County in an attempt to erase the perjury conviction of a former Constantine reserve police officer.
The lawyers saying it was detectives who lied and not Raymond McCann.
McCann was initially the prime suspect in the 2007 murder of Jodi Parrack of Constantine.
He was taken into custody, publicly identified and interrogated for an extended period. Eventually he entered a no contest plea to perjury in March of 2015 and served 20-months in jail.
When it turned out that Daniel Furlong had killed the young girl and that McCann had nothing to do with it, the St. Joseph County Prosecutor John McDonough did not offer an apology.
McDonough told the Sturgis Journal in March of 2016 that he stood by the McCann prosecution, saying “He pled. It’s not like he was wrongfully convicted.”
