The state has already stated it is reassessing the cases before them. What I still want to know is when will Snyder, the former governor, finally be held for his part in all this.
April 9, 2019
By Ron Fonger
There’s a new attorney (click here) pushing the criminal charges against former Michigan Chief Medical Executive Dr. Eden Wells, but her attorneys say it’s same flawed case.
In a court filing Monday, April 9, Jerold Lax, an attorney for Wells, asked Genesee Circuit Court Judge Joseph Farah to dismiss charges Wells was bound over on, including involuntary manslaughter, because of “clear errors of law” by Genesee District Court Judge William Crawford....
...Farah is expected to schedule a hearing date for oral arguments on whether he should dismiss the charges -- something that happened in February for the same issue in another Flint water case -- this one against former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon.
Farah said at the time that he expected to rule on the Lyon case within about 90 days.
Both Lyon and Wells were charged for their role in the state’s handling of outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease in Genesee County at the same time that the city was using the Flint River as its water source.
Eighty-seven cases of Legionnaires’ -- 10 resulting in death -- were documented in the county in parts of 2014 and 2015.
City, county and state officials were aware of the outbreaks more than a year before Gov. Rick Snyder informed the public of them and the suspicion that surges in the disease were connected to the Flint water.
April 9, 2019
By Ron Fonger
There’s a new attorney (click here) pushing the criminal charges against former Michigan Chief Medical Executive Dr. Eden Wells, but her attorneys say it’s same flawed case.
In a court filing Monday, April 9, Jerold Lax, an attorney for Wells, asked Genesee Circuit Court Judge Joseph Farah to dismiss charges Wells was bound over on, including involuntary manslaughter, because of “clear errors of law” by Genesee District Court Judge William Crawford....
...Farah is expected to schedule a hearing date for oral arguments on whether he should dismiss the charges -- something that happened in February for the same issue in another Flint water case -- this one against former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon.
Farah said at the time that he expected to rule on the Lyon case within about 90 days.
Both Lyon and Wells were charged for their role in the state’s handling of outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease in Genesee County at the same time that the city was using the Flint River as its water source.
Eighty-seven cases of Legionnaires’ -- 10 resulting in death -- were documented in the county in parts of 2014 and 2015.
City, county and state officials were aware of the outbreaks more than a year before Gov. Rick Snyder informed the public of them and the suspicion that surges in the disease were connected to the Flint water.
