Barry County’s Sentencing Math has a Familiar Problem: The Facts Keep Getting Stretched
A defendant who never received a trial is reportedly facing 40 to 60 months in prison. As Barry County prepares…
The Discredited, Part III: Fire, and the Indicators That Were Never Indicators
Bad Science · Part III of VIII Fire: The Indicators That Were Never Indicators For most of a century, arson…
The Analyst’s Cut: “The Murder of Rachel Nickell” Gets Investigated
The Analyst’s Cut · Episode 01 Season one opens with Netflix’s true crime hit: an offender profile that became a…
Ed Gein’s Confession Was Beaten Out of Him. The Sheriff Who Did It Got a Promotion.
Ed Gein became a horror template. The real record includes a confession beaten out of him by the sheriff who…
The Confidential File That Wasn’t: Jalal Abdallah, George Hunter, and Michigan’s Selective Bar Discipline Secrecy
A confidential Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission recommendation against State House candidate Jalal Abdallah reached the public two days before his…
Clutch Justice Weekly 020: Barber v Morawa and the End of the Apology Defense
The Clutch Justice Weekly briefing for Issue 020: a lawyer who apologized twice and got sanctioned anyway, plus a forensic…
Barry County’s Evidence Problem Is Now Apparent in Two Michigan Supreme Court Records
A recantation the court tested and rejected. Newly discovered evidence about a detective’s credibility record. A reply brief that never…
Black August: How Grief Inside San Quentin Became a Movement the State Couldn’t Bury
History & Institutional Memory August 8, 2026 · 8 min read Black August: How Grief Inside San Quentin Became a…
Because She’s Powerful: What This Country Asks Women to Carry Alone
Commentary · Essie Sister Rita Williams ? Founder, Clutch Justice ? Essie Sister, National Policy Subcommittee ? August 8, 2026…
DOC Reassigned the Warden Who Asked for Safety. Heidi Washington Has Ignored the Same Warnings for a Decade.
John Christiansen warned his superiors about a dangerous staffing gap at St. Louis Correctional Facility and was reassigned that same…
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