They Let Them Die? Checking a Viral Amelia Earhart Post Against the Record
A post circulating this month says Amelia Earhart survived her crash, begged for help for days, and was deliberately left…
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.
Michigan Supreme Court Takes Up Attorney Fees for Indigent Defendants. Clutch Justice Is Filing on the Record.
Amicus · Michigan Supreme Court Michigan’s Supreme Court is deciding whether people the state already called too poor to hire…
The Equalizer the Legal Profession Didn’t Ask For
AI is closing part of a justice gap the legal profession spent a century building. The record shows what its…
Kent ISD Is Handing Off a Nature Center With a Ten-Year Fuse, and It Never Disclosed the Construction Ties Behind the Vote
The deed has a ten-year expiration date. The board’s vice president runs a trade school built in the demolition estimator’s…
Foul Trouble: Eight Years for a Charge That Was Never Manslaughter
Foul Trouble · Case No. 04 Jayson Williams staged a death scene, told witnesses to lie, and it still took…
No Autopsy, Two Rulings, One Legend: The Record Behind Houdini’s Detroit Death
Michigan History · Record Analysis Harry Houdini died in Detroit 100 years ago today. Nobody performed an autopsy. The question…
Fifty-Seven Halloweens: Pam Hobley, Patty Spencer, and the Man Who Ran Out the Clock
Michigan Cold Case · 57 Years Pam Hobley and Patty Spencer walked away from Oscoda High School on Halloween afternoon…
The 2026 Clutch Blanket Mystery, Week 14: The Scales of Justice Square
Two sworn accounts of 1996 sit on the table and both cannot be true. June weighs them the only honest…
MDOC Demoted the Warden Who Warned Someone Would Die. The Warden With Three Homicides Kept His Job.
MDOC · Follow-Up Investigation In July, MDOC pulled a warden off his post the same night he warned that someone…
The Transcript Already Exists. Michigan Still Makes You Wait For It.
Michigan’s transcript system runs on a per-page fee frozen since 1986 and a court reporter shortage nobody disputes. Its recording-access…
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