Norway Closed The Isdal Woman’s Case as Suicide Before the Autopsy Was Even Finished.
A woman burned in a remote Norwegian valley, fingerprints deliberately removed, at least eight false identities behind her. Bergen police…
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.
Kalamazoo County Wants Two More Judges. It Hasn’t Answered for What’s Already Wrong Inside Family Court.
Michigan’s own data says Kalamazoo County’s courts are running at 119 percent of capacity, and the state’s fix has sat…
A Warren Judge Was Charged With “Super Drunk” Driving. He’s Still on the Bench.
Investigation Chief Judge John Chmura faces a high-BAC OWI charge months after allegedly rear-ending a public bus. He is still…
The West Memphis Three Case Had An Occult Expert. His Doctorate Came From An Unaccredited Correspondence School.
The West Memphis Three are usually remembered as a story about small-town paranoia. The specific institutional record is sharper than…
The Endorsement Wasn’t the Problem. The Letterhead Was.
Judicial Accountability Two Oakland County district judges endorsed a Macomb County circuit court candidate on official court stationery. Michigan’s own…
When the Survivor Is the Defendant: Michigan’s Missing Framework for Criminalized Survivors
A free national technical assistance center exists because defense teams routinely do not know how to litigate abuse history. Michigan…
Bad Science, Part V: Bite Marks, and the One Time the System Worked
Bad Science · Part V of VIII Bite Marks: The One Time the System Worked Bite mark comparison rested on…
The Vendor Accountability Gap: What Michigan’s $9 Million Transparency Failure Reveals About Government IT
Investigation Michigan paid roughly $9 million for a transparency system that could not display lobbyist spending. Three states away, the…
The Access Judge: What Macomb County’s Published Courtroom Policy Costs a Self-Represented Litigant
The Short Version Before she took the bench in January 2026, Judge Tanya A. Grillo spent years implementing Michigan’s indigent…
The Colonial Parkway Murders: What the DNA Actually Solved, and What It Didn’t
Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. died in Lancaster County, Virginia, in 2017. It took a multi-agency task force, a federal sexual…
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