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Convicted MI killer awaits recommendation on clemency

By AP

BATTLE CREEK, MI –

The Michigan parole board has not acted in the case of a convicted killer from Calhoun County whose clemency petition has the support of U.S. Sen. Carl Levin.

Prisons spokesman Russ Marlan says Tom Cress' case did not come up Friday but could be on the agenda in two weeks.

The parole board will decide whether to recommend freedom for Cress, convicted 25 years ago in the slaying of a teenage girl.

The Michigan Supreme Court refused to grant a new trial despite no physical evidence against Cress and the subsequent confession of another man.

Cress spoke to the parole board in March, joined by lawyers from the Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan law school. The prosecutor is opposed to clemency, a decision that would be up to Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

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