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.
Scholars like Amy Back and Radley Balko have spent years chronicling prosecutorial misconduct — ranging from withholding evidence to faking evidence to coercing confessions — around the country. Now it appears that Michigan may have its own example — and this one involves sex. The Grand Rapids Press reports:
A deputy city attorney, who is being investigated for reducing a woman’s drunken driving offense in exchange for sex inside a jury room, has been fired, City Attorney Andrew Mulder said.
Carl Gabrielse, 30, was terminated Friday from the Holland law firm, Cunningham Dalman, a day after it was notified of a probe by Holland police and Ottawa County sheriff’s detectives into the alleged misconduct.
Gabrielse, who could not be reached for comment, has not been arrested or charged with a crime.
A source close to the investigation told The Press that Gabrielse met with the woman defendant at a pre-trial conference and that she had sex with him as part of a plea deal.
Gabrielse, the source said, had told the woman he would reduce her charge to impaired driving from drunken driving.
The next day she reported the incident to police and then met with Gabrielse again while wearing a wire that recorded evidence of the incident, the source said.
That’s not gonna look good on a resume.
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