Daily Briefs

 Annual MDTC Open Golf Tournament planned for Sept. 12 at Mystic Creek

The Michigan Defense Trial Counsel will host its 18th Annual MDTC Open Golf Tournament on Friday, Sept. 12, beginning with a shotgun start at 11 a.m. at the Mystic Creek Golf Club and Banquet Center in Milford.

Four hole-in-one prizes will be awarded and include:
 
• Crystal Mountain getaway.

• Garland golf getaway.

• Las Vegas getaway (no airline tickets).

(Above three prizes are 3 day, 2 night stay and golf for two people.)

The cost to attend is $165 per person on or before Saturday, Aug. 23, and $175 per person after Aug. 23. The cost for dinner only is $45.

The fee includes practice range balls, greens fees, card, deli sandwich lunch at registration, and a tenderloin/chicken breast combo plate dinner at 5 p.m.

Trophies are given for tournament champs, longest drive (men/women), closet to pin (men/women), and winning foursome.

For additional information or to register, call (517) 627-3745 or visit www.mdtc.org.
 

Federal court won’t put Socialists on state election ballot in Nov.

DETROIT (AP) — A federal appeals court has turned down a request to place five Socialist Party candidates on the November ballot.
 
The court recently ruled that Matt Erard hasn’t demonstrated that granting an injunction is in the public’s interest.

He sued in Detroit federal court, claiming Michigan’s election law is too rigid and unconstitutional when it comes to qualifying for the ballot. Political parties must get a certain number of votes in a previous election or collect a certain number of signatures.

Erard needed 32,000 for the 2012 election but collected only 925. In May, Judge Stephen Murphy ruled in favor of the state and dismissed the lawsuit.

Murphy says Michigan law treats all minor parties the same.
 

Dearborn man who killed woman on porch sued   for millions by family

DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man who killed an unarmed woman on his porch is being sued for more than $10 million.
 
The parents of 19-year-old Renisha McBride filed their lawsuit against Theodore Wafer on Tuesday in Wayne County Circuit Court. A jury convicted the 55-year-old Wafer of second-degree murder on Aug. 7. He’ll be sentenced Sept. 3.

Wafer shot McBride in the face in November at his Dearborn Heights home. He says he acted in self-defense after hearing pounding at his doors.

McBride had crashed her car hours before and an autopsy found she was drunk.

Monica McBride and Walter Simmons accuse Wafer of wrongful death and negligence in their daughter’s killing.

Wafer’s lawyer, Cheryl Carpenter, tells WWJ-AM that her client has no money because of the cost of his defense.

 

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