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.
Former state Rep. Mary Waters is asking the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to allow her to withdraw her guilty plea in a federal corruption trial where she was a co-defendant with her former boyfriend Sam Riddle.
The Detroit News reports:
The appeal argues U.S. District Judge Marianne O. Battani failed to establish a factual basis for Waters’ guilty plea; her Sixth Amendment right to effective legal assistance was violated; and it was unfair to make her guilty plea conditional upon Riddle also pleading guilty, according to the filing.
It’s extremely rare for a court to allow a guilty plea to be withdrawn. This one will be even tougher to win since Waters was the one who asked the court to pay Richard Convertino as her court-appointed attorney.
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