Barry County Citizens Should Talk to Commissioner Jon Smelker About Conviction Integrity. Here’s How.
Barry County residents do not need to start with outrage. They can start with a specific public ask: put conviction…
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.
Hastings Just Upheld Another FOIA Block. Barry County’s Evidence Problem Is No Longer Theoretical.
A May 11 Hastings FOIA appeal vote did not happen in a vacuum. It landed on top of months of…
The Striped Notebook Cover: A Clutch Justice Crochet Pattern
Direct Answer This is a free crochet pattern for the black and white striped notebook cover that appears in every…
The Investigative History of The Salish Sea Feet
Rita Ruins Everything Since August 2007, at least 21 detached human feet, most of them still inside sneakers, have washed…
SWET Was Not a Resume Footnote. MSP Sgt. Bryan Fuller Was Hastings Post Before It, During It, and After It.
Bryan Fuller’s own Michigan State Police biography, a defense attorney who never raised a Brady challenge, and two more Hastings…
Barry County Defunded a Sheriff’s Detective Four Years Ago. Here’s Why it Should Defund their Prosecutor’s Office Right Now.
Barry County already decided that public-safety money can be pulled back when it is misdirected, wasteful, or untethered from the…
When the Science Was Never There: Junk Forensics, Unethical Investigations, and the Institutions That Kept Using Both
Direct Answer Discredited forensic methods have contributed to wrongful convictions in the United States for decades. The problem is not…
Clutch Called It First: Ionia Township’s Ex-Treasurer Indicted in $747K Federal Bank Fraud Case
CLUTCH CALLED IT FIRST Six weeks before the federal charge became public, Clutch Justice read Ionia Township’s own FOIA record…
Whatever Happened to Sigmund Rumpf?
A homicide case stripped of self-defense evidence, sentenced on a discredited finding, and now surrounded by newly documented overlaps among…
Same Detective, Same Lawyer, Different County: What Michigan State Police and the Attorney General Never Told Joey Nagle’s Family
Bryan Fuller wasn’t working alone. Shane Criger co-built the case that cost the state $14.5 million, then led the investigation…
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