Court: Parole is not an entitlement in state
DETROIT (AP) — An appeals court says Michigan prisoners have no federal constitutional right to parole under state law.
The decision is significant because it’s a published opinion that sets precedent.
A three-judge panel at the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in favor of the state but said Lucius Crump’s argument was “substantial.”
Crump was convicted of sex and drug crimes. He was denied parole in 2008 after the Michigan parole board interviewed him. Before the denial, he was classified as having a “high probability” of release.
In a 2-1 decision, the appeals court says a probability is not a certainty.
The court says parole is not an entitlement in Michigan and doesn’t trigger constitutional protections.
Lawsuit filed over kids tested for alcohol
LIVONIA (AP) — Teens celebrating graduation from eighth grade were illegally forced to take breath tests after repeatedly denying they were drinking alcohol in the woods, the American Civil Liberties Union claims in a lawsuit against police.
Five students from Discovery Middle School in Canton Township passed the breath test during a picnic in June. The lawsuit says parents were not contacted ahead of the test nor did Livonia officers get a warrant.
An assistant principal found an empty liquor bottle in the woods and wrongly suspected trouble, the ACLU said.
“Federal and state courts have ruled over and over again that if a teen is not driving, the police need a search warrant to administer a breath test,” said ACLU attorney Dan Korobkin.
The lawsuit against Livonia was filed in federal court on behalf of a 13-year-old boy. It seeks a financial award and removal of the boy’s name from police records.
Detroit-area man loses explusion appeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — An immigration appeals board has dismissed the appeal of a Michigan man who was ordered removed from the U.S. because he shot Jews during World War II as part of Nazi-sponsored persecution.
The Board of Immigration Appeals upheld an immigration judge’s decision that John Kalymon of Troy served voluntarily as an armed member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police and shot Jews.
Kalymon’s lawyer, Elias Xenos, vowed to go to federal appeals court in Cincinnati.
A Justice Department official said Kalymon and accomplices in the Ukrainian Police were indispensable participants in Nazi Germany’s campaign to exterminate the Jews.
College to improve gender equity in sports
ADRIAN (AP) — Adrian College has agreed to make changes to its sports programs after federal investigators found the small, liberal arts school discriminated against female student athletes.
The U.S. Department of Education cited the southern Michigan school for 11 violations of gender-equity rules, according to a recent Detroit Free Press story.
The agreement caps a three-year investigation into Title IX violations at the school, and failure to comply could cost the school federal aid.
Among the changes the school must make: add at least one more women’s sport, build a women’s locker room in its multipurpose stadium and increase pay for coaches of women’s sports.
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