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Michigan AG Calls for Special Prosecutor in 2020 Election Tampering Probe

The Crime Report

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked the Michigan Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council, a state agency, to appoint a special prosecutor to consider charges against nine people in connection with an effort to gain access to voting machines after the 2020 election, reports the Associated Press.

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“Star Chamber Comeback”: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Loses Flint Water Cases in Spectacular Fashion

JonathanTurley

Attorney General Dana Nessel has lost the Flint case in spectacular fashion this week. In an unanimous 6-0 ruling, the Michigan Supreme Court held that her office committed a fatal and inexplicable error in prosecuting nine officials for the Flint water crisis, including former Gov. juror) to charge them.”

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The ‘Assembly-Line’ Justice of Plea Bargaining

The Crime Report

In 1916, at a single Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan, workers also reported almost 200 severed fingers and 75,000 other injuries. This despite the fact that we know myriad innocent people charged with felonies plead guilty. Somil Trivedi is Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project.

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MA Record Expungement Bill Offers ‘Fresh Start’ to Juveniles

The Crime Report

For felony charges, the Salem News details that petitioners have to wait at least seven years, misdemeanors mean waiting three years. The Crime Report detailed earlier this year that a University of Michigan study found that most people eligible for expungement don’t apply for it — only 6.5

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Michigan AG dismisses charges against pro-Palestine protestors at university campus

JURIST

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Monday dropped the prosecution of seven individuals charged with trespassing and resisting and / or obstructing a police officer for their conduct related to the police clearing of an encampment at the University of Michigan in May 2024.

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US authorities charge Michigan police member over fatal fugitive arrest operation

JURIST

Michigan State Police Detective Sergeant Brian Keeley was charged on Tuesday with second degree murder or involuntary manslaughter of Samuel Sterling by Michigan Attorney General. Alternatively, Keeley has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, which is a felony with a fifteen-year sentence.

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International arbitration, McGirt retroactivity, and anti-discrimination laws

SCOTUSBlog

a Michigan-based indirect subsidiary, on the ground that a private arbitration counts as a “foreign or international tribunal” for Section 1782. whose attorneys contribute to SCOTUSblog in various capacities, is counsel to the petitioner in this case. Following precedent in the U.S. Disclosure : Goldstein & Russell, P.C.,

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