
Since his conviction in 1985 Ewing
has been trying to locate the physical evidence in all of the cases. The sheriff
departments routinely ignored his requests. Then the state of Michigan disallowed
prisoners to file under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Friends and family,
however, continued the search and in 1994 the Jackson County Sheriff Department stated
that the evidence had been destroyed.

The act of destroying the evidence was
in direct disobedience to this order written by the Prosecutor in 1985.
The Ewing Defense team also sought the physical
evidence from his convictions in Washtenaw County (Jensen & Wright). In both
cases it has
mysteriously disappeared.

