The 2026 Clutch Blanket Mystery, Week 08: The Flashlight Square
A label written over an older label. Under the flashlight, the ghost of the original number comes up out 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.
The Allegan Central Dispatch Recording: Joseph Nagle’s Shooting, Minute by Minute.
CLUTCH JUSTICE · JOSEPH NAGLE Dispatch Allegan Central’s own recording of the radio traffic from the night a deputy shot…
The Colonial Parkway Murders: What Changed With Call and Hailey, and What Didn’t
The FBI did not discover Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. in 2026. Investigators had him in 1988, surveilled him, searched his…
Trial by Mechanism, Part III: Peeler, and What the Court Actually Held
Trial by Mechanism · Part III of VIII Peeler, and What the Court Actually Held Almost every account of this…
Joey Nagle Was Murdered June 16, 2022. Four Years Later, We May Finally Know Who Did It.
CLUTCH JUSTICE · RECORD REVIEW The deputy’s wrong LEIN query, undocumented verification steps, and a fatal encounter the released record…
Clutch Justice Weekly: Nature Center Sale, Amicus Library Opens
The Clutch Justice Weekly briefing for Issue 025: a nature center’s fifty-two-year-old promise, a Michigan Supreme Court amicus brief now…
The Cleveland Torso Murders Were Not Just Serial Killer Case. They Were a System Failure in Plain Sight.
Cleveland’s Torso Murders are usually told as a hunt for a brilliant killer Eliot Ness never caught. The documented record…
Marine Sgt. Todd Wagner Was Named as Tom Siver’s Investigator. Allegan County Says Two Reports on the Case Don’t Exist.
Sources say she moved out four days after the collision. They say Marine Sgt. Todd Wagner closed the accident complaint…
Tom Siver’s Party Voted Him Down in August. By September, He Was Still Standing With Its Nominee for Governor.
Michigan allows judicial candidates to participate in political activity. Evaluating a campaign mailer requires distinguishing those permissions from the rules…
Eli Savit, Dema Law, and the Government Money Nobody’s Explaining
Last week, The Detroit News found that Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit, now running for Michigan Attorney General, has spent…
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