Eric Anderson was 20 years old when he was accused of participating in a 2010 armed robbery outside a Detroit home. One victim found Anderson’s photograph on Facebook ten days after the crime and identified him as the robber who had pistol-whipped him. The second victim could not identify either assailant. The first victim’s mother also identified Anderson as one of two men she saw near the family’s vehicles after her son called to report the robbery. Anderson maintained that he was more than ten miles away when the robbery occurred and had been shot in the foot at a Coney Island restaurant. Hospital records showed that he arrived for treatment at approximately 3:30 a.m., shortly after the robbery. Surveillance footage from the restaurant showed a chaotic incident and a person wearing jeans consistent with Anderson’s clothing, but the video was not presented to the jury. Prosecutors argued that Anderson was the robber whose gun initially misfired and that it later discharged accidentally, wounding him as he fled. Anderson and several defense witnesses testified that he had been shot at the restaurant and then driven to the hospital. Despite this evidence, Anderson was convicted in November 2010 of armed robbery, assault, and a firearm offense and received an aggregate sentence of 15 to 22 years. The Michigan Innocence Clinic and the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office Conviction Integrity Unit later reinvestigated the case. The actual perpetrator provided a sworn statement admitting that he and another man, not Anderson, committed the robbery. His description of the clothing he wore also matched the victims’ original descriptions. Investigators reviewed Anderson’s medical records and the restaurant surveillance footage and determined that the bullet entered the side of his foot. That injury was inconsistent with the prosecution’s theory that he accidentally shot himself while fleeing the robbery. In April 2019, the court vacated Anderson’s convictions, dismissed all charges, and released him after he had spent approximately eight and a half years wrongfully incarcerated. (National Registry of Exonerations