Kevin Harrington had just completed his first year of college in 2002 when he was wrongfully arrested, charged, and ultimately convicted of murder. Kevin briefly returned to his hometown of Inkster, MI after finishing a year of college in Ohio and just before leaving to spend his summer with a friend in New Mexico. When Michael Martin was killed in Inkster in September 2002, the police, for reasons that are still yet to be truly explained decided that Kevin Harrington and another man, George Clark, had to be the murderers. Police pressured and coerced a woman who lived near the crime scene into implicating Harrington and Clark. Although this woman, the State's sole inculpatory witness, recanted at trial, both men were convicted in 2003.