LANSING, Mich. — A series of mistakes by Michigan State Police landed the wrong man in jail for child pornography. But while an assistant attorney general on Tuesday admitted police were wrong, he said they were innocent mistakes.
Billy Dean Rowe, a married father of four without a criminal record, was in jail for three days before police realized their mistake. Rowe, of Homer in Calhoun County, is now suing the state. On Tuesday, lawyers on both sides argued before the state Court of Appeals whether the troopers involved in the case were protected by governmental immunity.
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