From Allegan to the Ballot: What Berrien County Voters Should Know About Judicial Candidate Myrene Koch
Investigative From Allegan to the Ballot: What Berrien County Voters Should Know About Judicial Candidate Myrene Koch What You Need…
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.
A Former Siver Employee Put Her Name on the Record. The Campaign Answered a Different Question.
Follow-up · Michigan Accountability Series This piece follows Kent County Terminated Thomas Siver’s Indigent Defense Contracts for Cause. He Is…
Bad Science, Part IV: Capture, and the Twenty-Nine Months That Ended an Inquiry
Bad Science · Part IV of VIII Capture: The Twenty-Nine Months That Ended an Inquiry Texas built an oversight body,…
Kent County Terminated Thomas Siver’s Indigent Defense Contracts for Cause. He Is Now on the Ballot for District Judge.
Clutch Exclusive Michigan Accountability Series Four bodies of records spanning eleven years bear on the fitness question in Allegan County’s…
The Analyst’s Cut: “The Crash” Gets Investigated
The Analyst’s Cut · Episode 02 A car at one hundred miles an hour, a bench trial with no jury,…
The Family Repair Fund: A Blueprint for Making Judicial Misconduct Cost Something
When a judge or a prosecutor’s documented misconduct destroys a family, the only people who pay right now are the…
Strict Compliance, No Exceptions: Court of Appeals Keeps Judge Namita Sharma Off the November Ballot
Judicial Accountability · Ballot Access Direct Answer On August 13, 2026, a three judge panel of the Michigan Court of…
The JTC annual report (Rita’s version): Who actually did what in 2023, 2024, and 2025
What You Need To Know The Commission published the anonymous version. This is Rita’s Version. Every year Michigan’s Judicial Tenure…
Clutch Justice Weekly, Issue 021: Everyone Appeals Judge Michael Schipper’s Decisions. He Said So Himself, From the Bench.
The Clutch Justice Weekly briefing for Issue 021: one week in a Barry County courtroom, a Sunday teaser, the Detective…
Chris Benoit and Wrestling’s Missing Regulator: Kayfabe and Casefiles, No. 01
Investigation · True Crime Kayfabe and Casefiles: Installment 01 Three institutions had jurisdiction over pieces of what happened in a…
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