By Sara Sidner and Meridith Edwards
Jackson, Mississippi, and Flint, Michigan (CNN)Six-year-old Charles Wilson V (click here) is scared to drink out of the water fountain at his school.
"I will die," he says matter-of-factly when asked the reason why.
It's a fear his father agrees with. At home in Jackson, Mississippi, Charles Wilson III -- who lost his first namesake son when he was just a baby -- gets bottled water for his family to drink, and he boils water for everything else.
The water is back on in Jackson after historic flooding took out the water treatment plant where pumps were already failing, but the Wilson family has lost faith....
Those are personal information and pictures. They were presented in a legal case to allow the jury to witness the issues of the children. There is no place for this in a defendant's possession.
Anyone can get transcripts from any trial. There is no reason for this request.
By Ron Fonger
Flint - A civil bellwether trial (click here) tied to the Flint water crisis ended in a mistrial last month, but attorneys for an engineering consultant that was sued is remaining active in U.S. District Court.
Attorneys for Veolia North America, one of two consultants sued by four Flint children for professional negligence in the case, has asked Judge Judith E. Levy to require the children’s attorneys to turn over a copy of the PowerPoint slide presentation they showed during their closing argument.
After final arguments from the children, Veolia and a second consultant -- Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, the eight-member jury deadlocked after six days of deliberation before a mistrial was declared. Jurors reported in a note that they had become deadlocked and that continuing the trial would affect their “physical and emotional health.”
The new motion by Veolia says it wants the slide show, which included pictures of the four children and clips of videotaped testimony, in order to supplement the trial record in the case....
Attorneys for Veolia North America, one of two consultants sued by four Flint children for professional negligence in the case, has asked Judge Judith E. Levy to require the children’s attorneys to turn over a copy of the PowerPoint slide presentation they showed during their closing argument.
After final arguments from the children, Veolia and a second consultant -- Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, the eight-member jury deadlocked after six days of deliberation before a mistrial was declared. Jurors reported in a note that they had become deadlocked and that continuing the trial would affect their “physical and emotional health.”
The new motion by Veolia says it wants the slide show, which included pictures of the four children and clips of videotaped testimony, in order to supplement the trial record in the case....
April 13, 2022
By Ron Fonger
Levy said attorneys may have to play videotaped depositions from witnesses and reserve in-person questions -- if allowed by the Appeals Court -- at a later time....
By Ron Fonger
Flint - The Michigan Supreme Court (click here) won’t alter a requirement that Flint water prosecutors use a taint team in their prosection of government officials, including former Gov. Rick Snyder, a decision that could delay the criminal cases for years.
In a two-paragraph order on Tuesday, Sept. 6, the Supreme Court said justices were “not persuaded that the question presented should be reviewed by this Court.”...
"The Daily Show" and Jeffery Toobin on "Taint Team."
