Road to Clemency: Bay County woman in murder-for-hire case to be released
But family members of Tim Szenay, the victim in the case, are not happy with the early release
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But family members of Tim Szenay, the victim in the case, are not happy with the early release
But family members of Tim Szenay, the victim in the case, are not happy with the early release
Hatchett was a long-time Pontiac attorney and civil rights activist.
The cause of death wasn’t released by the family. He was 84. Hatchett was one of two young lawyers who filed a federal lawsuit against Pontiac Public Schools in 1968 to end its segregation practices. When U.S. District Judge Damon Keith ruled in their favor, requiring busing to end the segregation, it marked the first such legal victory in a northern state. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled state laws allowing school segregation were unconstitutional, was issued in 1954. “He was a fighter for justice,” Pontiac Mayor Deirdre Waterman ...
SOM Director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights on the Passing of Elbert Hatchett Director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights on the Passing of Elbert HatchettContact: Vicki Levengood levengoodv@michigan.gov April 9, 2021 LANSING, MI-James E. White, Director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, has issued the following statement on the passing of Atty. Elbert Hatchett. "With the passing of Attorney Elbert Hatchett, Pontiac has lost one of its most prominent citizens and Michigan has lost an exceptional legal mind and civil rights icon. Atty. Hatchett was known for...