Michigan High Court Invalidates Former State Officials' Flint Indictments

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Michigan Supreme Court ruled June 28 that a single judge acting as a grand jury had no power to indict former Gov. Rick Snyder, his former state health and human services director, Nick Lyon, and seven other Flint and state officials. The Michigan law goes back more than 100 years to when police departments, sheriffs and other law enforcement agencies lacked investigatory powers and could not subpoena witnesses or interview suspects. The Flint water crisis exposed between 6,000 and 12,000 children. Snyder is scheduled to appear in federal court in a civil trial in a federal court on June 30. "We applaud today’s decision. The decision leaves no doubt about how Attorney General Dana Nessel’�s office egregiously mishandled the beginning,"