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governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:
HA! HA! You VINDICTIVE STUPID CUNTS! LESBIANS ARE TOO STUPID
TO CORRECTLY APPLY THE LAW AS WRITTEN, DANA NESSEL.
A judge had no authority to issue indictments in the Flint water
scandal, the Michigan Supreme Court said Tuesday, wiping out
charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and
seven other people.
It's an astonishing defeat for Attorney General Dana Nessel, who
took office in 2019, got rid of a special prosecutor and put
together a new team to investigate whether crimes were committed
when lead contaminated Flint's water system in 2014-15.
State laws "authorize a judge to investigate, subpoena
witnesses, and issue arrest warrants" as a one-person grand
jury, the Supreme Court said.
"But they do not authorize the judge to issue indictments," the
court said in a 6-0 opinion.
In a money-saving move, Flint managers appointed by Snyder
switched the city's water source to the Flint River. State
regulators said the river water didn't need to be treated to
reduce its corrosive qualities. That was a ruinous decision:
Lead from old pipes flowed through the system for 18 months in
the majority-Black city.
Snyder was charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful
neglect of duty. Ex-health chief Nick Lyon and Michigan's former
chief medical executive, Dr. Eden Wells, were charged with
involuntary manslaughter for nine deaths related to
Legionnaires' disease when Flint's water system might have
lacked enough chlorine to combat bacteria in the river water.
Six others were also indicted on various charges: Snyder's
longtime fixer, Rich Baird; former senior aide Jarrod Agen;
former Flint managers Gerald Ambrose and Darnell Earley; former
Flint public works chief Howard Croft; and Nancy Peeler, a state
health department manager.
Nessel assigned Fadwa Hammoud to lead the criminal
investigation, along with Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy,
while the attorney general focused on settling lawsuits against
the state.
Hammoud and Worthy turned to a one-judge grand jury in Genesee
County — a century-old, rarely used method — to hear evidence in
secret and get indictments against Snyder and others.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flint-water-scandal-indictments- former-gov-rick-snyder-others-invalid-michigan-supreme-court/
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