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Rita Williams
Rita Williams is a Michigan-based judicial oversight analyst and founder of Clutch Justice, an investigative platform focused on court system accountability, sentencing integrity, and SCAO policy. Her work examines how courts, policies, and administrative systems operate in practice, with a focus on where process breaks down and harm is created. Drawing on lived experience and systems-level analysis, she writes to make legal structures more readable, expose institutional gaps, and advocate for reforms grounded in both evidence and human impact. Rita’s writing bridges legal analysis, institutional critique, and public education, with a consistent focus on accountability without losing sight of the people most affected by the justice system.
The Zodiac Killer walked past two patrol officers minutes after his last murder. A radio dispatch error is why they let him keep walking.
The Zodiac case is usually treated as a code, a suspect list, or a pop-culture puzzle. The single most consequential…
Barry County’s Sentencing Math has a Familiar Problem: The Facts Keep Getting Stretched
A defendant who never received a trial is reportedly facing 40 to 60 months in prison. As Barry County prepares…
The Discredited, Part III: Fire, and the Indicators That Were Never Indicators
The Discredited · Part III of VIII Fire: The Indicators That Were Never Indicators For most of a century, arson…
The Analyst’s Cut: “The Murder of Rachel Nickell” Gets Investigated
The Analyst’s Cut · Episode 01 Season one opens with Netflix’s true crime hit: an offender profile that became a…
Ed Gein’s Confession Was Beaten Out of Him. The Sheriff Who Did It Got a Promotion.
Ed Gein became a horror template. The real record includes a confession beaten out of him by the sheriff who…
The Confidential File That Wasn’t: Jalal Abdallah, George Hunter, and Michigan’s Selective Bar Discipline Secrecy
A confidential Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission recommendation against State House candidate Jalal Abdallah reached the public two days before his…
Clutch Justice Weekly 020: Barber v Morawa and the End of the Apology Defense
The Clutch Justice Weekly briefing for Issue 020: a lawyer who apologized twice and got sanctioned anyway, plus a forensic…
Barry County’s Evidence Problem Is Now Apparent in Two Michigan Supreme Court Records
A recantation the court tested and rejected. Newly discovered evidence about a detective’s credibility record. A reply brief that never…
Black August: How Grief Inside San Quentin Became a Movement the State Couldn’t Bury
History & Institutional Memory August 8, 2026 · 8 min read Black August: How Grief Inside San Quentin Became a…
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