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April 29, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
The woman who leads local Democrats is calling a vote earlier this week by the all-Republican County Board of Commissioners, âa small, petty decisionâ when they declined to appoint a Democrat to the bipartisan county jury commission, and instead left the position vacant.
Judy Daubenmier, who chairs the Livingston County Democratic Party, issued a press release (posted below) following Mondayâs meeting of the county board in which they approved incumbent Nancy Sauvage, a Democrat, and former commissioner Bill Green, a Republican, to the county jury commission, omitting the name of Democrat Dane Morris, despite the fact that all three had been nominated to the panel by Chief Judge Michael Hatty.
March 12, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
The guilty verdict of a Brighton-area man for raping a teenage girl at a golf course has been vacated by a local judge.
In court Thursday morning, Livingston County Judge Michael Hatty read a ten-page opinion from the bench concerning the verdict against 22-year-old Zachary Lally of Green Oak Township. Lallyâs attorneys had sought a new trial based on allegations that Assistant Prosecutor Pamela Maas solicited perjured testimony from a detective in the case. Hatty referenced several examples of what he termed âprosecutorial misconductâ that resulted in Lally âbeing denied a fair and impartial trial.â He then concluded that a new trial was warranted.
December 10, 2020 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
A motion has been denied to drop the charges against one of the two men charged with the deaths of 11 Livingston County residents.
Barry Cadden is facing trial in Livingston County Circuit Court on second degree murder charges filed last year by the Michigan Attorney Generalâs Office for his role in running the New England Compounding Center. Cadden was the co-owner of the facility, while his co-defendant, Glenn Chin, was the supervising pharmacist.
In court today, Caddenâs attorney argued that there was no evidence that directly linked his client to the tainted steroids produced at the pharmacy, which ultimately led to over 100 deaths nationally, 11 of them in Livingston County. He argued that Cadden was never in the pharmacyâs so-called âclean roomâ, where the drugs were manufactured, and had no way of knowing what went on there. The attorney, Gerald Gleeson, argued that Ju