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Eric Smith is a former Macomb County Prosecutor and convicted criminal. [2] He resigned on March 30, 2020, after criminal charges were filed against him. [3]Smith had also gained national notoriety in 2007 due to the Tara Grant murder case, which Smith personally prosecuted.
The then-county prosecutor William L. Cahalan sued over this resolution. Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney v Wayne County Board of Commissioners (1972) 205 N.W.2d 27, 44 Mich. App. 144. The Court of Appeals found the board of commissioners did not abuse their discretion under state law. The removing the civil caseload from the prosecutor's office.
In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct or prosecutorial overreach is "an illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment." [1] It is similar to selective prosecution. Prosecutors are bound by a set of rules ...
Nessel had referred the case of Michigan’s 16 electors to the Justice Department, but the nonprofit news service Bridge Michigan reported this year that she was reopening her investigation ...
Michigan law, MCL 14.32, provides that "[i]t shall be the duty of the attorney general, when required, to give [their] opinion upon all questions of law submitted to [them] by the legislature, or by either branch thereof, or by the governor, auditor general, treasurer or any other state officer . . . ."
More than 50 clergy — including 48 priests — in a Michigan diocese have been accused of sexual abuse dating back to the 1950s, according to a disturbing report by the state’s top prosecutor.
Robert P. Young Jr. (born June 13, 1951) is a former justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [1] Young was first appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court in 1999, elected in 2000 and 2002, and again won reelection in 2010 for a term ending in 2019. Justice Young announced he would be retiring from the court at the end of April 2017. [2]
Carlos Torres, 40, was convicted in May 2022 by a Lenawee County Circuit Court jury of sexually abusing a girl who was 11 or 12 when the abuse began.