Blog tagged as Courts

Attorneys for two of the 16 GOP would-be 2020 electors asked a judge to dismiss their clients’ criminal charges, with one proclaiming “there is no crime” and another challenging the Attorney General’s “brainwashed” description of the defendants.

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 10/06/2023) A large-scale, illegal marijuana grower in Tuscola County can not be charged with a felony because the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act (MRTMA) limits prosecutors to only misdemeanor charges, the Court of Appeals ruled Friday.

If the Legislature is unable to pass implementation language on the financial disclosure elements in Proposal 1 by the end of the year, anyone in the state would have standing to ask the Michigan Supreme Court to step in.

A lawsuit led by the former counsel for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a Michigan State University professor and others seeks to keep former President Donald Trump’s name off Michigan’s 2024 presidential primary and general election ballots.

The Attorney General’s Flint water prosecution team appeared to grudgingly accept defeat Wednesday as the Michigan Supreme Court declined to hear appeals challenging the dismissal of criminal charges against seven former state officials.