I Have Never Met the People Harassing My Children
Editorial Transparency This is a first-person account written by the founder of Clutch Justice about conduct directed at her own…
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.
#ReadWithClutch: Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System, by Innocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant
#ReadWithClutch · Book Review Direct Answer Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System, by Innocence Project attorney M. Chris…
The Murder of Lynne Harper and How the System Failed Her Twice
Lynne Harper was 12 years old. The system that was supposed to find her killer instead built a death penalty…
Judge Thomas Ludington’s Probation Violation Dismissed: What Michigan’s Technical Violation Statute Actually Required
Judicial Accountability A missed drug screen put a sitting federal judge back in a Michigan district courtroom. The statute that…
Seven Years for a Torn Receipt: The JTC Finally Decides FC-106 and FC-105
On July 28, 2026, the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission issued decisions in two formal complaints arising from a single bicycle…
The Discredited, Part I: The Admissibility Gap, and the Michigan Rule Frozen in 2004
Bad Science · Part I of VIII The Admissibility Gap, and the Michigan Rule Frozen in 2004 Every discipline in…
Chain of Custody: What it Requires, Where it Breaks, and How to Read the Record
Chain of Custody: What It Requires, Where It Breaks, and How to Read the Record · Clutch Justice clutch. Forensics…
Clutch Justice Weekly 018: MSC Rules Police Can’t Trick You Out of a Lawyer
The Clutch Justice Weekly briefing for Issue 018: a 6-1 ruling, two new attorney discipline notices, and one week until…
Michigan Audited Its Prison Arsenals for Fifteen Years. It Still Cannot Say What Is Missing.
Between 2010 and 2025 the Michigan Office of the Auditor General published eleven facility-level examinations of prison safety and security….
The Shark Arm Case: How a Severed Arm, a Dead Witness, and a Destroyed Shark Became One of History’s Biggest Evidence Failures
The shark made the case famous. The justice system made it unresolved. The arm proved that James Smith had likely…
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