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…
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.
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…
Before the Bench: A Pattern of Concern Follows Allegan County Judicial Candidate Tom Siver
Direct Answer In addition to the conduct Clutch Justice previously published, new concerns have been reaching Clutch’s inbox daily. The…
The Tanning Bed Murders: A Nashville Cold Case That Stayed Open
Investigation In 1996, two 18-year-olds were stabbed to death inside a Nashville tanning salon. The only man ever charged walked…
Clutch Justice Weekly 024: The Gadola Appointment, 47 Days
The Clutch Justice Weekly briefing for Issue 024: nine days, forty-seven days, five archives, and what they do and don’t…
Bad Science, Part VII: The Software, and a Validation Lag Enforced by Trade Secret
Bad Science · Part VII of VIII The Software: A Validation Lag Enforced by Trade Secret Every discipline in this…
Left Cold #1: Brittany Shank and the Six Years St. Joseph County Can’t Explain
A forensic sketch and a 911 call sat in a file for nearly six years. The tools that finally reopened…
Exhibit WTF, Case No. 02: The Phantom Barber Who Broke Into Bedrooms Just to Cut Hair
Exhibit WTF · Case No. 02 In the summer of 1942, someone crept through open windows in a wartime Mississippi…
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