Appellate intervention is supposed to mean correction. In Barry County, it keeps looking more like a suggestion…
Judicial Accountability Michigan’s judicial oversight body operates almost entirely in secret by constitutional design. In 2023 it…
We treat addiction like a disciplinary problem, then act surprised when it becomes a fatal one. Overdoses…
Same system. Same county. Different outcomes that don’t reconcile. Sentencing is supposed to reflect proportionality, consistency, and…
Family court is supposed to safeguard children. When power, bias, and manipulation take hold, it can become…
Plea bargaining is often sold as efficiency. The danger starts when that efficiency turns into manipulation, coercion,…
Too often, sentencing decisions are treated as sterile calculations—months, years, guidelines, ranges. What gets erased in that…
Editorial Transparency Requests for comment were not returned. This piece is based on court records, publicly available…
When one of Michigan’s most effective wrongful-conviction advocates retires, the real question is not just who replaces…
Michigan’s sentencing guidelines are supposed to create structure. The harder question is who is interpreting that structure,…
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