Judge orders release of teenage boy charged with murder of 4 people after the real killer confessed

A judge on Tuesday threw out the murder
convictions of Davontae Sanford who pleaded
guilty to killing four people at age 14, a case which
a lot of people had doubted for years especially
after a professional hit man stepped forward and
took responsibility for the murders at a drug den.
Judge Brian Sullivan acted at the request of the
Wayne County prosecutor's office and lawyers for
, Sanford who's now 23.
Sanford was arrested and convicted for murder
in the 2007 fatal shootings of four people at a
Detroit house. He pleaded guilty to second-degree
murder at age 15, because he was trying to please
the Police. But after he got arrested, he withdrew
his confession but it was already too late. Since
his arrest, he had been trying to undo that plea for
years, especially after hit man Vincent Smothers
confessed to the murders.
Vincent Smothers insists that he killed the four
people in a drug house and that Sanford had no
role in it.
Judge Sullivan said Sanford who is still in a prison
in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, will be released on
bond and all charges against him will eventually be
dropped.
The agreement signed by prosecutors says the
state police found major problems in the work of a
Detroit police official who investigated Sanford
after the four homicides.
Smothers is in prison after pleading guilty to eight
other murders.