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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.
An abuse of process is the unjustified or unreasonable use of legal proceedings or process to further a cause of action by an applicant or plaintiff in an action. It is a claim made by the respondent or defendant that the other party is misusing or perverting regularly issued court process (civil or criminal) not justified by the underlying legal action.
The first criminal charges in a nationwide scheme target a GOP-backed effort to reject Biden’s victory
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 ...
Flint was under control of a state-appointed emergency manager in 2014 when it switched its water source from Detroit's municipal system to the Flint River.
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.
From the creation of the federal courts by the Judiciary Act of 1789, judges had the power to summarily punish those who obstructed justice by holding them in contempt of court. [19] [20] A scandal in 1830 led to reform of the contempt law and the creation of obstruction of justice as a separate offense.