I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The Innocence Project, a non-profit legal group dedicated to using DNA testing to overturn verdicts for those wrongly convicted of serious crimes, says they have the evidence to prove that Karl Vinson, a Michigan man convicted of rape who has spent the last 23 years in prison, is innocent. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The Innocence Project at the University of Michigan Law School, in a motion filed Monday in Wayne County Circuit Court, said it has new scientific evidence that Vinson was not the man who crawled through a window in 1986 to rape a 9-year-old Detroit girl in her bed.
Vinson’s innocence is “a slam dunk … a scientific certainty,” said David Moran, a U-M law professor who heads the project, which works to overturn wrongful verdicts…
The testing “conclusively shows that Mr. Vinson is an AB secretor, contradicting prosecution witness testimony and evidence used against Mr. Vinson at trial,” the project said in its legal filing.
The project said the new tests indicates the attacker was also a secretor, but with blood type O semen.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has received the Innocence Project’s report but says that the evidence in this case is “not clear-cut.” A hearing is required for a judge to examine the evidence and decide what to do. That hearing has not yet been scheduled.
The Innocence Project has successfully proven the innocence of 242 people convicted of major crimes they did not commit, including three from the state of Michigan.
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