I Filed an Amicus Brief in Mark Foley’s Case. Barry County’s Own Answer Gave Me the Argument.
Barry County argued that eventually finding out an order exists is close enough to being served with it. I told…
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.
After the Diary: Michelle McNamara and the Cases Nobody Else Was Watching
Editorial note: After the Diary is an independent journalistic project produced by Clutch Justice. It is not affiliated with, authorized…
Missy Woods DNA Scandal: The Trust Question Colorado’s Sentencing Leaves Behind
Direct Answer On September 8, 2026, a Jefferson County judge sentenced former Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA analyst Yvonne “Missy”…
Trial by Mechanism, Part II: An Unchallenged Assumption
Trial by Mechanism · Part II of VIII An Unchallenged Assumption A statute from 1917 gave Michigan judges the power…
The Sheriff’s Report on Tom Siver’s Jet Ski Crash Only Tells His Side
Investigation Michigan Accountability Series Clutch Justice obtained Allegan County’s file on a 2023 collision judicial candidate Tom Siver was involved…
Kent ISD Committed to Demolishing The Howard Christensen Nature Center. The Full Cost Still Isn’t Public.
Kent ISD approved selling the Howard Christensen Nature Center to a private land trust for $1,000 and agreed to pay…
Mark Foley Kept Speaking Out. Barry County Made Him the Problem.
A man says he was jailed after challenging failures in his own case. The response should be an examination of…
Professional Investigators Spent Five Years on a Judge’s Murder. Two Private Citizens With a Hidden Tape Recorder Cracked It in One Night.
A judge was murdered for insisting a corrupt colleague face disbarment. Official investigators worked the case for five years and…
What Went Missing: Kalamazoo’s Evidence-Room Cocaine Scandal, and the Secrecy Law That Still Protects It
Investigation A 1993 audit found more than 1,100 rocks of cocaine and other drugs gone from the Kalamazoo Department of…
D.C. Police Admitted in 2009 They’d Lost the Freeway Phantom’s Case File. The DNA Went With It.
Six Black girls and young women were murdered in and around Washington, D.C., over seventeen months. It took four of…
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