by johannesabona84 | Jan 15, 2021 | Recent News
June 20, 2017 | After nearly three years, a judge has dismissed charges against nine defendants arrested for protesting Detroit’s mass water shutoffs. The so-called “Homrich Nine” were arrested in June 2014 for attempting to block trucks belonging to Homrich, the...
by johannesabona84 | Jan 15, 2021 | Recent News
October 13, 2001 | Ibrahim Turkmen answered a knock on the door of his home in West Babylon, New York, to find two FBI agents. A solemn man with a strong jaw and deeply etched features, Turkmen was thirty-five years old at the time. Though his English was limited, he...
by johannesabona84 | Jan 15, 2021 | Recent News
June 17, 2016 | A Hillsdale man is suing the state, county, and city officials for being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for failing to register as a sex offender. Anthony Hart is suing for false arrest, malicious prosecution, failures in the municipal system, and...
by johannesabona84 | Jan 15, 2021 | Recent News
June 14, 2016 | Detroit and Wayne County officials could find themselves in court as lawyers for Davontae Sanford anticipate filing a federal civil rights lawsuit stemming from his eight-year stint in prison for murders he did not commit. When asked if there would be...
by johannesabona84 | Jan 15, 2021 | Recent News
Sep 12, 2015 | The wife of a man who in 2013 hung himself in his Ottawa County jail cell is suing the county and three jail deputies, claiming they failed to protect him from himself. Scott Meirs, who was in jail on second-degree home invasion charges, was found...
by johannesabona84 | Jan 15, 2021 | Recent News
March 14, 2016 |Civil rights attorneys from the Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, National Lawyers Guild, Sanders Law Firm, the ACLU, and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed an appeal in Phillips v. Snyder, a 2013 federal lawsuit...
