Bodman attorney appointed to 3rd term on jury committee
The Michigan Supreme Court has appointed Bodman PLC attorney Thomas Van Dusen to a third term on the Committee on Model Civil Jury Instructions.
The committee is composed of judges and attorneys whose duty is to ensure that model civil jury instructions used in Michigan courts are concise, understandable, conversational, unslanted, and not argumentative. The committee has the authority to amend or repeal existing instructions and, when appropriate, adopt new instructions.
Van Dusen is a member of Bodman’s Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group. He advises clients in the areas of commercial, insurance, and personal injury defense litigation including arbitration hearings, bench trials, jury trials, and appeals.
Van Dusen is listed in The Best Lawyers in America under Commercial Litigation, in Benchmark Litigation as a Litigation Star, and in Michigan Super Lawyers under Business Litigation. He is a member of the American Arbitration Association, the National Diocesan Attorneys Association, and the Oakland County Circuit Court’s Case Evaluator Panel. Van Dusen is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.
Couple accused of caging autistic son, 19, make plea deal
BAD AXE, Mich. (AP) — A couple accused of keeping their 19-year-old adopted son in a cage at their home in rural eastern Michigan made a plea deal Thursday and face sentencing in March.
Karen and Timothy Tolin each pleaded no contest to a charge of unlawful imprisonment in Huron County District Court, county Prosecutor Timothy J. Rutkowski said. In exchange, prosecutors dropped a charge of vulnerable adult abuse against each of them.
The pleas came one day before Karen Tolin, 65, and Timothy Tolin, 66, were scheduled to go before a judge for a hearing on whether there was enough evidence to send them to trial. They face sentencing March 9 and remain free on bonds of $5,000 each.
The unlawful imprisonment charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
“It’s a sad circumstance all around,” Rutkowski said. “He’s in a situation where he should have been cared for.”
Sheriff Kelly J. Hanson has said a deputy answering a civil dispute call Oct. 20 found the 19-year-old in a bedroom at the home in Paris Township, about 90 miles north of Detroit.
Authorities removed three adults and two children from the home, which the state says was not a licensed care facility.
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