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.
Federal Judge Avern Cohn has set the retrial date for bribery and corruption charges against Detroit political consultant Sam Riddle for July 12. Cohn also allowed Riddle’s attorneys, at whom Riddle was quite critical during the original trial that ended with a hung jury, to withdraw from the case. But that’s where things start to get odd. The Detroit News reports:
U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn said he will allow Riddle’s attorneys, John Minock and Edward Wishnow, to withdraw from the case.
But at another hearing a short time later — related to a separate case in which Riddle is accused of bribing a former Southfield city councilman — U.S. District Judge Marianne O. Battani denied Minock’s request to withdraw. That means Minock could be representing Riddle at his next federal trial, which is scheduled to begin in front of Battani on June 1.
Cohn gave Riddle one week to raise the money and get a new private attorney to take his case. If he fails to do so, Cohn said, he will appoint an attorney for the last time. Should that fail, Riddle will end up having to defend himself in court.
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