MSP Detective Bryan Fuller Was Found Guilty of Violating Someone’s Constitutional Rights. He’s Still Working Barry County Cases.

Clutch Justice has preserved a screenshot taken on March 26, 2023 of a biography page for D/Sgt. Bryan Fuller. The page does not currently appear in the same accessible form reviewed from the screenshot, so this article treats it as a preserved record, not as a live webpage.

The screenshot states that Fuller enlisted with Michigan State Police in January 1995, was assigned to the Hastings Post after recruit school, and began an undercover assignment with the Southwest Enforcement Team, or SWET, in 2008, remaining there until 2010. It then places him briefly back at the Hastings Post before his January 2011 assignment to the Fifth District Cold Case Team.

The same preserved biography states that Fuller was reassigned to the Wayland Post in 2014, became a trooper investigator in February 2015, was selected as acting detective sergeant in September 2016, and was promoted to D/Sgt. in 2016. It also describes him as providing investigative guidance to troopers, serving on a district-wide investigative response team for officer-involved shootings, and having lead experience in homicide, criminal sexual assault, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, public corruption, the Aundria Bowman cold case, and multiple officer-involved shootings.

That matters for every court, prosecutor, defense attorney, and family trying to understand the scope of the Brady/Giglio problem. Fuller was not merely a case witness. MSP publicly described him as a detective sergeant who provided investigative guidance to troopers and participated in district-wide officer-involved shooting response. His credibility issues therefore affected not only testimony, but investigative supervision, evidence development, witness handling, charging recommendations, and the reliability of case files built under his guidance.

For the Barry County defendant whose turn-in Fuller coordinated and MSP later denied documenting, this matters because the botched turn-in was not random clerical confusion by an inexperienced officer. The preserved biography describes a senior MSP detective sergeant with decades of experience, supervisory authority, and complex-investigation credentials. A violated turn-in arrangement involving that person should never be brushed aside as a private misunderstanding between a defendant and MSP.

For the Joseph Nagle fatal police shooting review, it raises a broader state-level question. Clutch Justice has already documented Shane Criger’s role in that record and Criger’s connection to the McCann investigation. This screenshot adds another piece: Fuller himself was described as part of the district-wide investigative response ecosystem for officer-involved shootings. That does not prove Fuller worked the Nagle matter. It does raise the question Michigan should already be asking: how many officer-involved shooting investigations were reviewed, guided, supervised, or influenced by personnel tied to the McCann fabrication record?

This section does not assert that Fuller fabricated evidence in any SWET case, and Clutch Justice has not independently investigated SWET cases. It documents a preserved assignment history that matters because SWET itself has been the subject of serious community and defense allegations, including allegations of fabricated evidence. A detective later found liable for fabricated evidence in the McCann case should trigger review not only of his cold-case work, but also of earlier undercover and narcotics-team cases where credibility, informant handling, search warrants, controlled buys, and evidence integrity may have depended on his representations.

Ray McCann Jr. was a reserve police officer in Constantine, Michigan, a volunteer who went out to help search for an 11-year-old girl named Jodi Parrack after she went missing in November 2007. He was the one who suggested searchers check the cemetery. Her body was found there. That suggestion made him a suspect.

Michigan State Police cold case detective Sgt. Bryan Fuller reopened the investigation in 2011, seven years after the murder. Fuller could not obtain evidence connecting McCann to the murder because McCann had not committed it. Instead, Fuller targeted McCann for perjury, arguing that surveillance video proved McCann had lied about his whereabouts the night Jodi disappeared.

Fuller and fellow detectives conducted approximately 20 interrogations of McCann. They told him repeatedly that police had found his DNA on Jodi’s body. They had not. They lied. During those interrogations, McCann denied any involvement in the murder 86 times. Facing what he believed would be an unfair trial and life in prison, McCann pleaded no contest to one perjury count and served 20 months in prison.

While McCann was incarcerated, Daniel Furlong was arrested in another case. His DNA matched the DNA found on Jodi’s body. He confessed to her murder. The Michigan Innocence Clinic took up McCann’s case after Target 8 exposed how detectives had fabricated and manipulated evidence against him. McCann’s conviction was vacated in December 2017. The state paid him $40,000 under the Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act.

In the federal civil rights trial, Fuller took the witness stand and acknowledged that he had lied to McCann and to other witnesses during the investigation. His characterization of that conduct: it was not the preferred method, but it was not improper either.

“There are times that it happens, times that I’ve done it,” Fuller testified.

He also acknowledged that at one point during the investigation, police suspected McCann’s 11-year-old son was the killer and that McCann was covering it up. Fuller interviewed the boy, telling the child that Jodi Parrack was a “tramp” who had come onto him. Fuller testified that he did not like the tactic but did it anyway and did not consider it improper.

On September 19, 2023, a seven-person federal jury in the Western District of Michigan deliberated for approximately four hours before returning a verdict. They awarded Ray McCann Jr. $12.5 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages against Sgt. Bryan Fuller.

The $2 million in punitive damages was not routine. It was awarded specifically to send a warning to other officers that Fuller’s tactics were not acceptable. The jury’s message was explicit: this has to stop.

“They can’t make up evidence, they can’t deprive people of their liberty without evidence,” one of McCann’s attorneys said outside the courthouse. “And it sends the message that this has to stop. They can’t keep doing this.”

Fuller and his attorney left the courthouse without commenting. The Michigan Attorney General’s Office declined to comment on whether it would appeal.

On October 17, 2023, less than one month after the verdict, the Michigan State Police settled with McCann for $11 million. Fuller continued working for the Michigan State Police. As of August 2024, his LinkedIn profile showed him still employed by MSP.

New public reporting extends the timeline. On November 14, 2025, WWMT/ARC News Channel 3 published a report identifying Fuller as “MSP Detective Sergeant Bryan Fuller” in an Otsego Township investigation where Michigan State Police located additional human remains behind a home. The article reported that troopers and K-9 units returned to the property after remains were first discovered the night before, that the remains were decomposed and believed to belong to one person, and that the remains were being sent to Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine for autopsy.

The source does not say Fuller personally collected the remains. It does something narrower and still extraordinary: it places him, by name and title, in an active MSP human-remains investigation in November 2025, two years after the federal jury verdict and after the $11 million settlement. That matters because this is not paperwork. This is a case built around physical remains, missing-person information, autopsy evidence, and homicide-investigation protocols. A detective found liable by a federal jury for violating constitutional rights through fabricated evidence should not appear in a public-facing investigative role in a case like that without the public being told what review, discipline, restriction, or disclosure process MSP applied.

The Jodi Parrack investigation and the wrongful conviction of Ray McCann are matters of public record, published reporting, and federal court findings. They are not this article’s primary subject. Fuller’s ongoing employment while those findings accumulated is.

When a detective with a documented pattern of fabricating evidence, lying to witnesses, and violating constitutional rights continues working active criminal investigations, every case he touches is contaminated. Every piece of evidence he collected. Every representation he made to a prosecutor. Every investigative decision he made.

Prosecutors working with Fuller during the period of the McCann civil rights lawsuit had a Brady obligation: disclose the lead investigator’s known credibility issues to the defense. A detective who has been sued for fabricating evidence does not become invisible to the disclosure obligation because the lawsuit has not yet gone to verdict. The lawsuit existed. The allegations were public. The obligation to disclose applied.

Fuller’s name appears on campaign finance documents for Richelle Spencer, a Barry County Sheriff’s Office deputy who ran against incumbent Sheriff Dar Leaf in the August 2024 Republican primary. Fuller contributed to her campaign in 2024. What he was contributing to matters.

The Sixberry notes, handwritten documentation by Barry County Undersheriff Jason Sixberry, record a January 2023 internal investigation into Spencer’s stalking of a Hastings-area pediatrician, who was the wife of Spencer’s then campaign treasurer. According to those notes and your own Clutch Justice reporting, many of the stalking events occurred during Spencer’s working hours as an active BCSO deputy. She was on duty, in uniform, employed by the Barry County Sheriff’s Office, sending messages to and engaging in stalking conduct toward this physician while simultaneously campaigning for sheriff.

The Sixberry notes document that Spencer acknowledged needing medical intervention. A personal protection order was sought and reportedly received. That means Spencer was working as a Barry County Sheriff’s Office deputy with an active PPO against her. Under Michigan law, a PPO is a court order. A BCSO deputy working with an active PPO against her raises immediate questions about how that was handled internally, who knew, and why she remained on the force and on the ballot.

Campaign finance records show the treasurer changed around March 2023, consistent with the treasurer’s wife being the stalking victim. The stalking stayed out of public view until August 2024 when three FOIA requests were filed seeking the Sixberry notes. Nakfoor Pratt denied all three, determining the documents were not subject to disclosure. The charging decision on the 2023 conduct was documented at the Barry County Board of Commissioners as being in the hands of an APA. No charges were filed.

Sheriff Dar Leaf released the notes directly, telling WOODTV that the public had a right to know. The notes surfaced days before the August 6, 2024 primary. Spencer lost. Fuller had contributed to her campaign that same year, while the notes documenting the 2023 stalking conduct existed, while the PPO had reportedly been in place, while Spencer had been working as a deputy through all of it.

Spencer was arrested by Michigan State Police on October 15, 2024 for a second stalking incident involving a new victim. Her case was moved to Kent County. As of mid-2026 it has been indefinitely adjourned with no court date set.

Benjamin M. Norg, P82578, represented the defendant in the underlying Barry County matter. He is now a Circuit Court Assistant Prosecuting Attorney at the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor’s Office. Norg had Fuller’s name from the first week of the case. He was in direct text communication with Fuller about the investigation. He had Fuller’s own texts confirming the turn-in arrangement was violated. He texted the defendant on July 25, 2022: “That’s fucking bullshit. I’m so sorry.” He knew something was wrong with how Fuller had operated.

A reasonably competent defense attorney, upon learning that the lead detective violated a confirmed arrest arrangement, runs the detective’s name. Norg did not. That is not advanced criminal defense work. That is basic due diligence. Fuller’s name, his rank, and his MSP post were all known. McCann v. Fuller, Case No. 1:19-cv-01032, was publicly docketed in the Western District of Michigan since December 2019. PACER. CourtListener. A Google search. Any of those would have returned the active federal civil rights lawsuit against the detective whose conduct was already raising red flags in the defendant’s case.

Norg ran none of those searches. He raised nothing about Fuller’s civil rights exposure at the plea hearing, at sentencing, or at resentencing. He also simultaneously withheld an email documenting a negotiated plea agreement, said nothing on the court record when directly asked whether any promises had been made, and failed to enforce the agreement or move to withdraw the plea.

Norg’s supervising attorney, Tara Sharp of Sharp and Associates, told the journalist covering the case in March 2023 that she had never had a prosecutor completely violate a plea deal like this. That conversation was recorded. The email documenting the agreement has still not been produced.

Norg is now a Circuit Court Assistant Prosecuting Attorney at the Kalamazoo County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, handling felony cases under Prosecutor Jeffrey Getting. He is prosecuting people in Kalamazoo County using the same prosecutorial tools he failed to apply on behalf of his client in Barry County, while holding an email he has never produced and having conducted no due diligence on a detective a federal jury would find had a documented pattern of fabricating evidence.

Barry County Prosecuting Attorney Julie A. Nakfoor Pratt and APA Christopher J. Elsworth, P67710, are experienced prosecutors. Nakfoor Pratt has served as Barry County’s chief prosecutor for years. Elsworth had 19 years of criminal prosecution experience in Barry County before moving to Kalamazoo County’s Family Court division in January 2025.

Fuller was not a stranger to this office. He served at the Hastings MSP Post, the post that serves Barry County. He lives in Middleville, which is in Barry County, minutes from the Barry County courthouse. He was embedded in the same professional geography as Nakfoor Pratt and Elsworth. Barry County prosecutors working criminal cases with Hastings Post detectives over years of practice know the detectives they work with. Fuller was not an unfamiliar name on a case file. He was a known quantity in the Barry County criminal justice network.

That makes the non-disclosure impossible to attribute to ignorance. Nakfoor Pratt and Elsworth knew Fuller. They worked his cases. They presented his investigations to courts and juries. The McCann v. Fuller federal civil rights lawsuit, Case No. 1:19-cv-01032, was filed December 2019 and was active in the Western District of Michigan through all of the relevant proceedings. It was a public record. A federal civil rights lawsuit against a detective they knew personally and professionally, alleging fabricated evidence and constitutional violations, is precisely the category of material Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), requires prosecuting attorneys to disclose to the defense in any case that detective is working.

In every Barry County case Fuller investigated during the period of that litigation, December 2019 through the September 2023 verdict, the prosecuting office had a Brady obligation to disclose his federal civil rights exposure to the defense. The question is whether they did.

The failure to disclose is not an isolated oversight in one case. It is a prosecutorial policy question. A lead detective under active federal civil rights litigation for fabricating evidence does not stop being a Brady disclosure obligation because the cases are ongoing, because the litigation has not yet reached verdict, or because disclosure would complicate active prosecutions. The obligation attaches when the prosecuting office knows. Nakfoor Pratt and Elsworth knew.

Fuller acknowledged on the federal witness stand that he lied to witnesses during investigations and considered it a legitimate investigative tool he had used on multiple occasions. A federal jury found he fabricated evidence and violated constitutional rights. The Michigan State Police paid $11 million to settle. He kept working.

That outcome is not an accident. It is a policy. Michigan State Police does not remove officers who fabricate evidence. It defends them at public expense, settles their cases with taxpayer money, and continues deploying them. The Michigan Attorney General’s Office, the accountability mechanism for state actors, was Fuller’s defense counsel throughout the period he was building cases across Michigan. It defended him while arguing to a jury that he followed the process. The jury disagreed by $14.5 million.

The Barry County Prosecutor’s Office knew Fuller had an active federal civil rights lawsuit against him. Experienced prosecutors with decades of Barry County criminal practice knew. They presented his investigations to courts and juries without disclosing his federal civil rights exposure. They filed Brady disclosures in those cases, or they did not. That is now a question every defendant in a Fuller-built Barry County case can ask.

Defense attorneys who worked Barry County cases during the McCann litigation window had access to the same public federal court record. They could have run Fuller’s name. They could have found the lawsuit. Most did not raise it. The system that was supposed to catch a detective with a documented fabrication problem at every stage, through prosecutorial disclosure, through defense investigation, through judicial oversight, failed at every stage simultaneously.

Fuller was not a new officer with a short track record. He had a long career with the Michigan State Police, including cold case work, which is among the most consequential investigative assignments an officer can hold. Cold case detectives reopen investigations years or decades after the original crime. They interview witnesses whose memories have faded. They review evidence collected by others. They build cases on the foundation of prior investigative work that cannot be independently verified in real time. The integrity of the detective is the integrity of the case.

A federal jury found that Fuller fabricated evidence and violated constitutional rights. He acknowledged on the witness stand that he lied to witnesses during investigations and considered it a legitimate tool he had used on multiple occasions. The state paid $11 million to settle. And Michigan State Police kept him working cold cases.

The decision to keep Fuller working after the McCann verdict was made by someone in the command structure of the Michigan State Police under Col. James Grady, the same leadership that 98 percent of responding troopers voted no confidence in. No public explanation has been offered for that decision. No public review of Fuller’s caseload has been announced. No notification to defendants in his cases has been reported.

Fuller had a long career. He worked cold cases, which means his investigative fingerprints are on matters spanning years or decades. The McCann case was a cold case reopened years after the 1989 murder of Jodi Parrack. Fuller conducted approximately 20 interrogations of McCann. He lied to McCann about DNA evidence. He told an 11-year-old child that the murdered girl was a tramp. He built a case that resulted in a wrongful conviction that stood until the real killer’s DNA surfaced.

The question of how many other cases Fuller built or contributed to during his career, and what his conduct looked like in those cases, has not been publicly examined. MSP has not disclosed a review. The AG’s office has not announced one. No systematic notification to defendants has been reported.

What can be said with confidence is this: every case Fuller investigated during the period between the filing of the McCann lawsuit in December 2019 and the September 2023 verdict is tainted by Brady non-disclosure. The prosecuting attorneys who presented those cases had an obligation to disclose the lead investigator’s active federal civil rights litigation to the defense. Whether they did is an open question in each of those cases. Whether courts were told is an open question. Whether defendants were told is an open question.

Beyond that window, every cold case Fuller worked is subject to the same scrutiny the McCann case eventually received. A detective who acknowledged lying to witnesses as a routine investigative tool, who fabricated evidence in one documented case, does not suddenly develop different habits in other cases. The McCann case is the one that went to verdict. It is not necessarily the only one that has a problem.

There is a documented, established framework for what law enforcement agencies and prosecutors are supposed to do when an officer is found to have engaged in misconduct affecting constitutional rights. Michigan State Police and the Michigan Attorney General’s Office had access to that framework. They chose not to apply it.

After the September 19, 2023 verdict, MSP should have immediately suspended Fuller from investigative duties pending an internal review of his caseload. That is standard protocol when a law enforcement officer is found to have violated constitutional rights through fabricated evidence. The suspension is not punitive at that stage. It is protective, protecting the integrity of ongoing cases and protecting the public from further exposure to an officer whose credibility has been judicially destroyed.

MSP should have conducted a systematic audit of every case Fuller investigated during his career, prioritizing those in the McCann litigation window, December 2019 through September 2023, and those involving cold cases where fabricated evidence is most difficult to detect. That audit should have produced a list of cases requiring Brady notification to defendants and their attorneys.

The Michigan Attorney General’s Office, having defended Fuller at public expense and having argued that he followed the process, should have immediately reviewed that position after the verdict and notified prosecuting offices across Michigan that the lead detective in cases they had presented to courts had been found to have fabricated evidence. That notification triggers Brady obligations in every affected case.

The Barry County Prosecutor’s Office specifically, having worked with Fuller personally and professionally over years of shared Barry County criminal practice, should have reviewed every Barry County case Fuller investigated and made Brady disclosures to defendants in those cases. Nakfoor Pratt and Elsworth knew Fuller. They knew the verdict. They said nothing.

None of this happened. MSP issued no public statement about Fuller’s continued employment or caseload review. The AG’s office made no public announcement about notifications to prosecuting offices. The Barry County Prosecutor’s Office made no public disclosures to defendants in Fuller’s cases. The formal complaint submitted to MSP Internal Affairs in March 2023, flagging Fuller’s Barry County ties and the botched turn-in, received no documented response during the six months of the McCann trial or after the verdict.

Michigan law enforcement officers found to have violated constitutional rights through fabricated evidence are not automatically removed from active duty. The state’s system for handling such findings relies on internal MSP discipline, prosecutorial disclosure obligations, and court oversight in individual cases. All three mechanisms were available after the McCann verdict. The public record does not reflect that any of them produced a visible consequence for Fuller’s continued active employment.

The jury that awarded $2 million in punitive damages said explicitly that the amount was meant to send a message to other officers. Whether that message reached the Michigan State Police’s internal discipline process, and what that process produced, has not been made public.

Michigan defendants whose cases were built in whole or in part on Fuller’s investigative work during the period between the filing of the McCann lawsuit in December 2019 and the verdict in September 2023 have a documented basis to examine whether Brady disclosures were made about the lead investigator’s active federal civil rights exposure.

Sgt. Bryan Fuller served at the former Hastings MSP Post in Barry County. He lives in Middleville, Michigan, minutes from Barry County Circuit Court Judge Michael Schipper. His professional and geographic ties to Barry County placed him in close proximity to the judge presiding over the criminal case he was building during the period of the McCann federal civil rights lawsuit.

In June 2022, Fuller was in direct communication with the complaining company’s internal HR contact about the investigation, with that HR representative serving as a conduit between the company and the detective. The complaining company’s HR contact told the defendant directly that Detective/Sergeant Fuller would be contacting him, and confirmed having spoken with Fuller personally about the case.

On July 24, 2022, the defendant was arrested at his home by MSP Troopers Tucker and Taylor, outside the confirmed turn-in arrangement Fuller had been coordinating. Fuller’s own text communications, sent the following morning, confirm that Thursday the 28th at 9am was the agreed turn-in time, that he had been working with the court to arrange the best in-and-out time, and that the arrest by Tucker and Taylor was not known to him or requested.

On March 14, 2023, MSP denied a FOIA request for documentation of the turn-in arrangement, stating: “We do not have any email communications or documentation related to a voluntary turn in.” Fuller’s own texts contradict that denial. They document the arrangement, the confirmed date and time, and Fuller’s statement that the unauthorized arrest was not requested by him.

On March 26, 2023, the journalist covering the case submitted a written complaint to MSP Internal Affairs at mspia@michigan.gov requesting a fresh investigation into the botched turn-in, documenting Fuller’s Barry County ties and his proximity in Middleville to Judge Schipper, and stating that she believed the request was mishandled and integrity was compromised.

MSP did not act on that complaint. No documented investigation resulted.

Six months later, on September 19, 2023, a federal jury found that Bryan Fuller had violated Ray McCann’s constitutional rights through fabricated evidence and awarded $14.5 million in damages. The complaint about Fuller’s conduct in Barry County had been sitting with MSP Internal Affairs throughout the McCann trial. MSP had simultaneously denied that documentation of the turn-in arrangement existed, while Fuller’s texts confirmed it did.

The question of what Michigan does when one of its officers is found to have violated constitutional rights is not abstract. The Fuller verdict is one data point in a documented institutional pattern across the Michigan State Police that spans fabricated evidence, retaliation against whistleblowers, promotion scandals, and leadership-level perjury allegations. The pattern has cost Michigan taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. The officers at the center of it have, in multiple cases, kept their jobs or been promoted.

The pattern also includes Fuller’s investigative partner, Shane Criger. Prison Legal News reported that Criger worked with Fuller in the McCann investigation, including in the process that produced McCann’s sworn statement before the perjury charge. Criger later appears in Clutch Justice’s review of the Joseph Nagle fatal police shooting record as the D/Lt. around whom the MSP report is built. And the public appellate record places Criger in an evidence-destruction dispute as early as 2006: in People v. Przewoznik, the defendant challenged the destruction of much of the alleged meth-lab evidence, and the Court of Appeals documented Criger’s testimony that the materials were destroyed under MSP hazardous-materials policy. The court did not find bad faith. But when the same professional orbit later includes fabricated evidence, a wrongful conviction, and a fatal police-shooting review where the state-actor evidence is incomplete or redacted, the 2006 record belongs in the pattern analysis.

In August 2025, a federal jury awarded former Detroit police officer Sean MacMaster $58.4 million against MSP Lt. David Busacca and former Assistant Attorney General Brian Kolodziej. The jury found that Busacca had altered police reports and omitted exculpatory evidence in warrant applications, leading to MacMaster’s wrongful prosecution on fabricated child sexual assault charges. MacMaster spent 151 days in solitary confinement before the charges were dropped. Kolodziej was later disbarred. Busacca had been promoted to lieutenant by MSP in the years following the MacMaster case, despite court filings establishing that he had changed police reports. MSP settled the case for $9.3 million in October 2025. Busacca was still employed by MSP as of his promotion.

At the MSP Flint Post, former Sgt. Jared Chiros was found to have sent unsolicited photographs of his genitalia to a fellow law enforcement officer, led a promotion scandal in which test answers were provided to favored candidates, falsely accused fellow troopers of insurance fraud in retaliation for their cooperation in internal affairs investigations, and assaulted a trooper for participating in that investigation. Seven troopers filed 14 state and federal lawsuits against MSP alleging retaliation for reporting Chiros’ conduct. Those troopers were placed on the Genesee County Brady-Giglio list, effectively preventing them from working as law enforcement officers in that jurisdiction, in what their attorneys characterized as retaliation. The Chiros matter resulted in an internal investigation, Chiros losing his position, and his former commander retiring. The troopers who reported him were the ones placed on the list.

Trooper Megan Moryc filed suit against MSP in 2024 after being fired twice, both times reversed by arbitrators and courts, for gender discrimination and retaliation. The second firing, in February 2025, was overturned by an arbitrator in July 2025 who found the MSP had acted with legal animus against Moryc. MSP’s No. 2 officer, Lt. Col. Aimee Brimacombe, subsequently faces a perjury complaint filed by Moryc alleging Brimacombe signed a false affidavit denying knowledge of the case. More than 98 percent of MSP troopers who responded to a union survey said they had no confidence in the leadership of Col. James Grady and Brimacombe. The MSP’s top two officers have not resigned.

Rita Williams, the founder of Clutch Justice, is a Major Case Unit Analyst whose professional work involves reviewing investigative files, identifying misconduct patterns, and documenting institutional accountability failures. In the course of investigating Barry County court conduct, she reviewed multiple cases in which Sgt. Bryan Fuller served as the lead or contributing detective.

Her professional assessment, drawn from that review: across the cases she examined, Fuller’s investigative work reflected a consistent pattern of deficiency. Witness interviews that should have been conducted were not. Evidence that should have been collected was not collected. Forensic testing that the facts called for was not ordered. Witnesses were subjected to intimidation. Fuller lied.

The cases cannot be named to protect the individuals involved. But the pattern Williams observed across them is consistent with what the Michigan Innocence Clinic documented in the McCann case and what the Prison Legal News investigation confirmed: Fuller did not investigate to find the truth. He investigated to confirm a conclusion he had already reached. When the evidence did not cooperate, he fabricated it, withheld it, or pressured witnesses until the record matched his theory.

The McCann case is the one that went to a federal jury. It is the one that produced a $14.5 million verdict. It is not, based on what this investigation has found, the only Fuller case with a problem. It is the one that was examined most closely. The others have not been examined at all.

Fuller’s career was rooted in the MSP Hastings Post, which served Barry County and the surrounding area and has since been closed. Residents of Hastings with direct knowledge of the post’s operations during Fuller’s tenure there have told Clutch Justice that the Hastings Post developed a reputation within the community for wrongful convictions and planted evidence. Those accounts are community sourced and have not been independently verified through court records. What has been independently verified is that the detective who came out of that post fabricated evidence in a documented case, lied to witnesses by his own admission on the witness stand, and remained employed by Michigan State Police after a federal jury awarded $14.5 million against him.

The Hastings Post closure means that whatever institutional knowledge existed about cases worked from that location, including Fuller’s cases, is now dispersed. The post’s records are MSP records subject to FOIA. The cases its detectives built are cases in Michigan courts. The defendants in those cases have rights. The documentation of what happened at that post is not gone. It is unfiled.

If someone you love was investigated, charged, or convicted based in whole or in part on an investigation conducted by MSP Sgt. Bryan Fuller, the McCann verdict and the documented Brady non-disclosure give you concrete grounds to act. This is not legal advice. It is a roadmap of the documented options available to you.

Step One: Determine Whether Fuller Was Involved

Fuller served at the Hastings MSP Post, worked with SWET from 2008 to 2010 according to the preserved biography screenshot, returned briefly to Hastings, then worked cold cases across Michigan. He may appear in police reports, investigation summaries, warrant applications, controlled-buy records, informant files, narcotics-team records, surveillance summaries, trial testimony, or officer-involved-shooting response records. Request the full investigative file through your loved one’s defense attorney or through a FOIA request to the Michigan State Police. Fuller’s name should appear in any document he authored, signed, or was referenced in. His MSP ID and badge number may also appear in investigative reports.

Step Two: Determine Whether Brady Disclosure Was Made

McCann v. Fuller, Case No. 1:19-cv-01032, was filed December 19, 2019 in the Western District of Michigan. If your loved one’s case was investigated, charged, or tried after that date and before the September 19, 2023 verdict, the prosecuting office had a Brady obligation to disclose Fuller’s active federal civil rights litigation to the defense. Ask the defense attorney of record whether they received any disclosure about Fuller’s federal civil rights exposure during the proceedings. If they did not, that is a documented Brady violation you can raise.

Step Three: File a Michigan FOIA Request

Submit a FOIA request to the Michigan State Police for any documentation related to Fuller’s involvement in your loved one’s case, including investigative reports, warrant applications, witness interview documentation, and any internal communications about the case. Submit a separate FOIA request to the prosecuting office for any Brady disclosure letters or notices issued to the defense regarding Fuller’s civil rights litigation. The absence of such a disclosure letter is itself evidence of the Brady violation.

Step Four: Contact the Michigan Innocence Clinic

The Michigan Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School was the organization that ultimately exposed Fuller’s conduct in the McCann case. They accept applications from individuals who have been wrongfully convicted and have documented their involvement in cases involving fabricated evidence and investigative misconduct. Contact them at: michigan.edu/innocence-clinic or by mail at Michigan Innocence Clinic, University of Michigan Law School, 625 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

Step Five: File a Post-Conviction Motion

In Michigan, a Motion for Relief from Judgment under MCR 6.502 is the primary vehicle for raising newly discovered evidence and constitutional violations in post-conviction proceedings. The Brady non-disclosure regarding Fuller’s federal civil rights litigation is newly discovered evidence that could not have been raised earlier if the prosecuting office withheld it. An attorney filing under MCR 6.502 can argue that the failure to disclose Fuller’s active civil rights litigation deprived the defendant of material exculpatory information bearing on the integrity of the investigation.

Step Six: File a Complaint With the FBI Civil Rights Division

Federal civil rights violations by state actors, including Brady violations by prosecuting offices, can be reported to the FBI Civil Rights Division. File online at tips.fbi.gov or contact the FBI Detroit Field Office at 26 Federal Plaza, Detroit, Michigan. The DOJ Civil Rights Division can also be contacted directly at civilrights.frc@usdoj.gov. Include Fuller’s name, the case number, the dates of the investigation, and the specific Brady violation, meaning the failure to disclose McCann v. Fuller during the proceedings.