Top court will hear case of man wrongly convicted, locked up
HILLSDALE, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to take the case of a man who spent 17 months in prison until authorities learned that he was wrongly convicted of failing to register as a sex offender.
Anthony Hart says his constitutional rights were violated by the state. It turned out that he wasn’t required to register after the Legislature changed the law in 2011 and excused some people who were prosecuted as juveniles.
Hart of Hillsdale County says no one at the state police removed his name or told him that he didn’t have to register. He was arrested in 2014 for failing to verify his address.
In February, the state appeals court said Hart didn’t offer enough evidence to justify a constitutional violation of “deliberate indifference.”
Oakland County 52-2 District Court to hold Oct. 3 docket at Cooley
Judge Kelley R. Kostin, 52-2 District Court (Clarkston), will hold court at WMU-Cooley Law School’s Auburn Hills campus on Thursday, October 3. The school’s court room, which is used for training students in court procedure, will be transformed into a court site for students, attorneys and other members of the public to observe.
Kostin’s afternoon docket will take place from 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Kostin was elected to the 52-2 District Court in 2004. She attended the University of Michigan where she received a BA?in economics in 1983. She was employed by Ford Motor Company in the Finance Department of the Electrical and Electronics Division prior to attending law school.
Kostin clerked for the Hon. Fred M. Mester of Oakland County Circuit Court while attending the University of Detroit Law School where she received her juris doctorate in 1991. She served as an associate in a private law firm for 13 years prior to taking the bench.
She is active in numerous community organizations and was honored by the Chamber of Commerce as Clarkston’s Youth Volunteer of the Year.
Woman ruled incompetent for trial in double-slaying
MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan judge has found a woman incompetent to stand trial in the July stabbing deaths of a couple.
Friday’s ruling means 39-year-old Monica Bagley of Muskegon will be treated at the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry.
Matt Roberts is chief trial attorney for the Muskegon County Prosecutor’s Office. He says that in 75 percent of cases, those found incompetent eventually become competent for trial following treatment.
MLive.com reports that Bagley faces two counts of open murder in the stabbing deaths of 71-year-old Charles “Chuck” Cooper and his longtime girlfriend, 66-year-old Linda Martin. They were found dead in their Muskegon home on July 14.
Bagley lived near the couple and Muskegon Police Chief Jeffrey Lewis has said Bagley knew the couple and it’s believed an argument preceded the stabbings.
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