Temujin Kensu #189355
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October 23, 2024 - Two private investigation firms, Welser Investigations and Delta Force PI co-author an excellent article in Law Enforcement Today discussing Temujin's wrongful conviction and call upon Gretchen Whitmer and Dana Nessel to fix this travesty.
September 1, 2024 - Australian press -Jack Lawrence from One Minute Remaining Podcast wrote this incredible article outlining the worst wrongful conviction cases in the United States -including of course, Temujin Kensu's case.
August 2024, George Hunter of The Detroit News writes about Paula Kensu's fight for Temujin's freedom in this article.
November 28, 2023 -In this Michigan Daily article, jouranalist Liam Rappleye interviews Kensu in Prison in one of the best articles ever written on the case
October 20, 2023 - Paula Kensu starts personal blog on medium.com and writes her first article on why all eyes should be on Governor Whitmer
On July 31, 2023, NewsBreak journalist Tracy Stengel discusses how the MDOC attemped to defend abuse against Temujin Kensu while at the Adrian prison
On June 24, 2023, NewsBreak journalist Tracy Stengel interviews Temujin Kensu who Describes the Inhumane Treatment in the Michigan Department of Corrections
On June 13, 2023, NewsBreak Journalist Tracy Stengel interviews Temujin Kensu's wife who Shares the Pain of a Wrongful Conviction - 36 Years and Counting
On June 1, 2023 - NewsBreak journalist Tracy Stengel announces that Muhammad Ali's Daughter is Determined to see Michigan Man Exonerated After Decades Behind Bars
May 30, 2023 Newsbreak - Wife of Temujin Kensu Pleads for Gov. Whitmer to Grant Clemency After 36 Years
On May 29, 2023 - Tracy Stengel from Newsbreak continues awareness around Temujin's wrongful conviction and includes pleas from Paula Kensu to Governor Whitmer based on upcoming "freedom holidays"
On May 24, 2023 - DJ's Jordan and Dietz from WJR Radio in Detroit intervview Bill Proctor and Khaliah Ali about Temujin's Wrongful Conviction Case and the reason Governor Whitmer needs to grant clemency!
On May 23, 2023 - Channel 4 Click on Detroit interviews Khaliah Ali and Maggie Freleng regarding this "stain on the state" and Khalia's commitment to "Not go Anywhere until Temujin comes home!"
On May 23, 2023 - Channel 7 Action News Bill Proctor still working to resolve the wrongful conviction of Temujin Kensu after over 30 years on the case.
On May 22, 2023 - Khaliah Ali and Maggie Freleng visit Temujin Kensu in the Macomb prison for his 60th birthday (Fox News Detroit)
May 20, 2023 - Tracy Stengel from NewsBreak covers Temujin Kensu's case summary in her first story of a series of articles to bring awareness to this injustice with hopes to get a wider support audience and Governor Whitmer to act on this injustice.
May 4, 2023 - Eddie Allen of the Detroit Metro Times interviews Khaliah Ali regarding the wrongful conviction of Temujin Kensu and explains why she is getting involved.
June 15, 2022 - Eddie Allen of The Metro Times did an amazing article calling out the Attorney General Dana Nessel for changing the eligibility criteria on the CIU website.
Voice of Detroit’s Diane Bukowski wrote this June 4, 2022 article regarding the disappointment advocates expressed in Dana Nessel/Val Newman’s decision to “close” Temujin Kensu’s case and that in doing so, the CIU “betrays all”.
St Clair County Press Release on June 3, 2022 is riddled with omissions of the facts in the Kensu case to include that 95% of his appeals were “rubber-stamp denied” and NOT thoroughly investigated in any sense of the word, nor do they mention the Habeas that Temujin WON citing prosecutorial misconduct by Robert Cleland and that he should be provided a new trial or freed from prison.
On Memorial Day 2022, George Hunter of The Detroit News writes, “Dana Nessel draws Criticism from high-profile supporters over review of ‘86 murder conviction” and the article calls out the multiple discrepancies in the “New Evidence” language provided by Director Frankyl and how that language changed without anybody being informed.
Joe Oliver penned this May 26, 2022 article in the Flint MLIve article that highlights Paula Kensu’s reaction to the press release put out by Representative Tlaib, Representative Andy Levin and Minority Senate Floor Leader Stephanie Chang.
May 25, 2022 - Congressman Andy Levin, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and Senate Minority Floor Leader Stephanie Chang release a joint press release in support of Temujin Kensu and express disappointment in AG Nessel’s CIU. They urge Governor Whitmer to take prompt action to exonerate.
Nolan Finley outlines the article dated 5/22/2022 related to AG Nessel’s CIU denying Temujin’s innocence. “I’m sentenced to die in this place”
May 19, 2022 - Click on Detorit via Associated Press - Michigan AG said it found no "new evidence" to support a claim of innocence, however advocates strongly disagree. The AG changed the eligibility criteria on their website without notifying anybody. (More on that below).
May 19, 2022 NBC - Hannah Rappleye writes regarding Temujin’s denial letter by the State CIU in this article titled “Michigan AG declines to pursue release of man known as ‘ninja killer’
May 17, 2022 - On the date of our dog’s 1st anniversary of her death, we get devastating news that Temujin’s Conviction Integrity Unit case was CLOSED by the AG’s office citing “no new evidence” was provided See link here.
Joe Oliver penned this May 26, 2022 article in the Flint MLIve article that highlights Paula Kensu’s reaction to the press release put out by Representative Tlaib, Representative Andy Levin and Minority Senate Floor Leader Stephanie Chang.
This article published on Saturday, October 30, 2010 by The Times Herald states that Prosecutor Robert Cleland did not err in the 1987 murder case. Since then, he has told multiple reporters that we sent his way that he does not comment on any of his cases.
Justice Denied: The Journal for the Wrongfully Convicted -Issue 44 Fall 2010. Temujin Kensu’s Murder Conviction Overturned by Federal Judge in this article.
The Port Huron Times Herald reported on October 20, 2010 that the “Legal System didn’t uphold it’s Integrity” in the Kensu case in this article.
This December 21, 2010 article by Michigan Radio describes how then Governor Jennifer Granholm refused to commute Temujin’s life sentence based on the parole boards’ recommendation.
In 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published this portrait of the 13 worst wrongful convictions in the state. As of August 2022, all except 3 of the men are now released or exonerated. The ACLU includes a great summary of the cost to taxpayers and the burden on families.
Beth LeBlanc of the Lansing State Journal writes “Judge denies new trial in 1986 SC4 Parking Lot Murder Case” (Nov 12, 2014). Port Huron judge Michael West issued a 24 page order and opinion denying Kenu’s motion for a new trial. Read about it here.
This October 2016 Detroit Free Press article quotes prosecutor Mike Wendling in St. Clair County Michigan who complains that Temujin Kensu is “manipulating a system” by filing appeals “again and again.”
In this July 2017 Times Herald article, Temujin Kensu offers up his own cash for information on who killed Scott Macklem.
Tracy Samilton of Michigan Radio publishes this May 18, 2018 article titled “Attorneys say Fred Freeman, in prison 32 years, is innocent.
In this December 2018 article in the Detroit News, Nolan Finley suggests that Governor Snyder should “Use his Pardon Pen.”
In this May 2019 article Michigan Public Radio article, journalist Tracy Samilton briefly summarizes the wrongful conviction case of Fredrick Freeman (Temujin Kensu) and informs readers that the case is under appeal by Kensu’s attorneys.
In this December 2019 Detroit News article, Nolan Finley writes to Michigan residents to explain how Temujin spent yet another Christmas behind bars for a crime that was impossible for him to have committed. In the article, he quotes Kensu who he visited on Christmas day at the Macomb Regional prison in Lenox Township, Michigan.
In this May 2020 article by MLive, Kensu’s attorneys plea for his release due to his positive COVID-19 test.
This July 2020 comprehensive interview by Herald News covers multiple discussions with Temujin Kensu and outlines the abuses in the wrongful conviction case.
In February 2021, local journalist Jim Bloch writes in Blue Water Healthy Living about Temujin’s case and where it sits with Michigan's Conviction Integrity Unit.
In this February 2021 The Voice News article, journalist Jim Bloch explains how a class high school students studied Temujin Kensu’s wrongful conviction case in their Forensic Science class and wrote letters of support to Michigan’s Governor Whitmer to ask her for clemency.
This February 22, 2021 Voice of Detroit article by Diane Bukowski explains that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer denied Temujin Kensu’s clemency request in late December 2020 and provides reasons why the Parole Board shouldn’t be weighing in on the process when they admittedly don’t consider innocence.
In this March 6, 2021 – Blue Water Healthy Living article– Michigan Students join calls to free man “wrongfully” imprisoned for 34 years – by Jim Bloch.
In this March 22, 2021 article, “Two Years into Michigan’s Convictions Review Unit – Everyone is still behind bars” – The Detroit News:
In this March 23, 2021 article, “Michigan Man’s Sketchy Conviction May be Test Case for State’s CIU” -WFGR 98.7 Grand Rapids.
Temujin’s case reaches the Daily Mail on April 13, 2021– United Kingdom newspaper. Read it here.
Viswa Vanapalli pens “Is Fredrick Freeman (Temujin Kensu) Innocent or Guilty? Where is he Now?” The Cinemaholic (June 5, 2021)
These six articles on ClickonDetroit by multiple news groups cover the various stages of the status of Temujin Kensu’s wrongful conviction case and highlight the support of High School students in Forensic Science classes who have asked Governor Whitmer and Dana Nessel to help.
In this August 2021 Detroit News article, journalist Nolan Finley describes how Michigan’s Governor should Free Temujin Kensu in honor of the late honorable Senator Carl Levin who fought tirelessly until the end to urge Michigan leaders to free Kensu.
In this April 2022 article, author Jim Bloch of BlueWater Healthy Living writes of “Temujin Kensu’s exoneration case appears to languish in state conviction integrity unit” and expresses the frustration of Kensu’s friends and supporters who are exasperated by how long it’s taking to free him. Please note: He references the “Innocence Project” in the article, but he should have referenced “Proving Innocence” which is the non-profit organization that is sponsoring Temujin’s release.
In this August 8, 2007 article by Sandra Svoboda of the Detroit Metro Times, Reasonable doubt Part II: chronicles how Fred Freeman (Temujin Kensu)’s wife Denise Deringer wrote to him in prison and at first doubted his innocence, read about his case, then later married him while he was incarcerated.
The Ninja Series - 1990s - Channel 7 ABC Detroit News anchor Bill Proctor reports on Temujin Kensu’s wrongful conviction and provides for a polygraph examination to be taken by Michigan State Police expert polygrapher Chester Romatowski. The results of the polygraph are aired on television and several theories are presented.
Episode 1 Ninja Series: https://youtu.be/vQXTV-FW4WQ
Episode 2 Ninja Series: https://youtu.be/vmOrhXwbUFA
Episode 3 Ninja Series: https://youtu.be/Zychcj4UUlg
Episode 4 Ninja Series: https://youtu.be/Zm69xNFL7ho
Episode 5 Ninja Series: https://youtu.be/MYWlFM_8hbY
Episode 6 Ninja Series: https://youtu.be/LCcSu2kq-yk
Another interview in 1995 by Bill Proctor Channel 7 titled, “Review for Clemency” and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Thomas Brennan said he would have thrown the case out if it came across his desk: https://youtu.be/yauDbGmhtag
In this Port Huron Times Herald article dated April 18, 1993, reports that David Dean (Temujin’s trial attorney) was struggling with cocaine abuse and was suspended as an attorney. This article also notes that in September 1991, Randy Overton was granted a new trial listing Mr. Dean’s substance abuse problematic in his defense. Overton was released from prison, but Temujin was not. (Every case that Dean worked on in a two year period resulted in an overturned conviction due to ineffective counsel, with the exception of the Kensu case).
The Port Huron Times Herald (same town that Scott Macklem was killed in), published this May 19, 1987 article regarding the votes count during the Freeman (Kensu) trial.