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 Detroit News reports that disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick “has qualified for a boot camp program that could get him out of his 1 1/2 – to 5-year sentence in as little as 90 days.” But in order to get into the program, Judge David Groner — the man who sentenced him to prison for violating his parole — would have to agree to the diversion program.
Kilpatrick is not typically the kind of inmate who is placed in a boot camp diversion program. Such programs are typically for much younger inmates caught in a cycle of poverty and criminal activity, not for an older, well-off politician and white collar criminal. And Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is solidly against the idea.
Objections to Kwame Kilpatrick’s qualification for a boot camp program that could dramatically shorten his prison sentence were filed today by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.
“This program is not consistent with the court’s findings nor with its sentence,” the prosecutor wrote in a letter to Wayne Circuit Judge David Groner, who gave Kilpatrick a guideline-busting 1 ½- to 5-year sentence for probation violations just two weeks ago. “The effort by the Michigan Department of Corrections to place Mr. Kilpatrick in the SAI (Special Alternative Incarceration) program would circumvent the court’s order.
“If the court wanted to sentence to him to 90 days, it could have,” Worthy said in concluding. “It is highly unlikely that in this short time-period that he has been rehabilitated.”
I think it’s highly doubtful this transfer would be approved.
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