By Ron Fonger
Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud, right, and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy wait to answer questions from Flint residents during a community meeting with Flint water prosecutors on Friday, June 28, 2019 at UAW Local 659 in Flint, two weeks after dismissing the charges in the criminal cases.
Flint water prosecutors (click here) have filed new court motions aimed at putting their criminal cases against nine government officials, including former Gov. Rick Snyder, back on course.
Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy filed motions in Genesee County courts on Friday, July 1, seeking to comply with a state Supreme Court ruling that says state law does not authorize one-person grand juries to file criminal indictments directly....
...Attorneys for Snyder had announced after the Supreme Court decision on Tuesday, June 28, that they would move to dismiss two Flint water criminal charges pending against their client, but Friday’s filings by the attorney general show they will face a fight before that happens.
Snyder and eight other current and former city of Flint and state of Michigan employees were indicted for crimes related to the water crisis in January 2021. Newblatt acted as a one-man grand jury in the prosecutions, but the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling says that while he had the authority to investigate and issue subpoenas, he did not have the authority to indict.
