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The state Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a 2018 law expanding a three-year statute of limitations to include claims of childhood sexual abuse up to a person's 28th birthday or three years after a person makes a connection between the abuse and injury or trauma is not retroactive.
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A man fled from Kalamazoo officers after they told him he was being detained. He was convicted of fleeing and resisting police. The question was whether the officers should have chased him in the first place.
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The state Supreme Court said it will hear arguments in cases that could lead to a ban on no-parole life prison sentences for people who were 19-20 years old when they involved in a major crime such as murder.
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The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that lengthy delays due to COVID-19 restrictions did not violate a defendant’s right to a speedy trial.
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The Association of Black Judges of Michigan said that the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission has “over the past 15 to 20 years prosecuted Black judges at a disproportionately higher rate than White Judges.” A review meant to address concerns of possible racial bias began this week.
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The lawsuits brought against three state universities by students wanting to be reimbursed for money they spent for a college education they feel they didn’t get in the spring 2020 semester.
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One of the first set of oral arguments was about exactly when a train operator had a duty to pull the brakes when he saw a person walking along the track.
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To the relief of many car crash survivors across the state, the Michigan Supreme Court decided benefit caps in the 2019 auto no-fault law do not apply retroactively.
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The state's high court is developing a dashboard for judges and citizens to see potential disparities in felony sentencing by race.
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The Michigan Supreme Court has upheld two convictions of a man violated two separate but similar state firearm laws. But two justices suggested it may be time to look at some changes. The defendant’s argued his convictions of violating the state’s felony firearm law and being a felon in possession of a firearm amounted to being charged twice for the same crime. That, he said, violates the double jeopardy clause of the US and Michigan constitutions.