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Walter Forbes

Case from Detroit, MI dated Sep 19, 2012

Victim Details

Walter Forbes

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Detroit

MI

2012-09-19

2012-09-19

41

Walter

Forbes

No

07/10/2026


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In 1982, a young college student named Walter Forbes found his life irrevocably altered by a series of events that began with him breaking up a bar fight in his home state of Michigan. The day after the fight, one of the men involved, Dennis Hall, retaliated by shooting Forbes. Shortly after, on July 12, 1982, Hall was found dead in a fire that was determined to be arson. Suspicion quickly fell upon Forbes due to the recent altercation.

Forbes was subsequently arrested and, in May 1983, c ...
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  • Walter Forbes - National Registry of Exonerations
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