DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals says it’s too late to get involved in the case of a former state lawmaker who resigned his seat after shooting at his ex-wife’s Mercedes-Benz car.
Prosecutors appealed after a Wayne County judge rejected part of the plea deal requiring Virgil Smith to quit the Senate. The appeals court says the Detroit Democrat voluntarily resigned so the appeal is moot.
Smith was released from jail in December after serving 10 months for malicious destruction of property.
The appeals court says Judge Lawrence Talon abused his authority in not allowing prosecutors to withdraw the plea deal.
But in a 3-0 decision last week, the court said reopening the case now would be “fundamentally unfair” because Smith is out of office and fulfilling the terms of his sentence.
- Posted April 24, 2017
- Tweet This | Share on Facebook
Appeals court drops case involving lawmaker's resignation
headlines Macomb
- New leadership team takes helm at State Bar
- Four weeks before Election Day, mail ballot returns are up 30% over same point in 2022
- Belleville woman arraigned in connection with alleged arson, felonious assault
- Warren man pleads No Contest to Felonious Assault and dog stabbing
- Woman sentenced for mortgage fraud, filing a false $374,000 tax refund return
headlines National
- Melissa Hart, the chair of the ABA Legal Ed council, dies
- Judge suspended after indictment over alleged perjury
- Bill Withers’ music publisher files copyright suit over Olivia Dean’s ‘I’ve Seen It’
- Judge reinstates US attorney in Washington fired by Trump
- Interim law dean of University of Florida named to permanent role
- Clio acquires Learned Hand, an AI company for courts, judges
