Introduction
About the Malice Green case.
Larry Nevers became a police officer at the age of twenty-eight simply because he
"needed a job." He immediately fell in love with the profession. For the next
twenty-four and one half years he diligently served the City of Detroit, working his way
up to become one of the most highly decorated officers on the city's 3,851 person police
force. During his lengthy career, he made over 5,000 felony arrests, earning in the
process, more than 115 awards and citations for bravery, life-saving, and outstanding
police work. Although discouraged at times by Detriot city politics and the unfair hiring
and promotional practices within the police department, he continued on in the job he
loved because "he thought he was making a difference."
Upon his conviction for second degree murder in the 1992 police
in-custody death of black cocaine addict Malice Green, not only were his job, freedom, and
family taken away from him, but also the reputation for courage, kindness, and integrity
he had spent his lifetime earning. "How could these people think I would do something
like this intentionally?" he later asked A & E's American Justice in a prison
interview. "Take somebody's life like this? I was so ashamed I couldn't even look
people in the eye."
The intent of this website is to introduce the police officer and the
man that Larry Nevers was, has consistently been, and is to this day, and to detail the
facts of the case giving readers an opportunity to judge for themselves whether his
conviction was a just and right one, or whether it was the result of a vicious,
politically and racially motivated, railroading. Read and discern.
"(Larry Nevers) is very highly decorated, no question about it. The number (of awards) he has is impressive and it may well be the most in the department..." He has 'well over 30 citations, over 60 commendations and over seven (medals with) ribbons,' including a statewide award, ....."
from The Detroit News, July 19, 1993
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