A Detroit man, who is accused of shooting and robbing a teenager in December and then released on bond, is now back in police custody after allegedly committing another violent crime.
National Conference Of Black Lawyers; the Neighborhood Defender Services of Detroit; the Wayne County Criminal Defense Bar Association, and Michigan Liberation. Also dismissed were cases involving two defendants represented by attorneys who were not part of our coalition, but who joined in our motion to dismiss.
Although the City of Detroit Law Department tried to conceal this information, we finally realized that the Detroit Police Department did not have a system in place to identify the arresting police officers for hundreds of arrested protesters. After their arrests, busloads of protesters were taken to one of three staging areas, where police officers who did not have personal knowledge of the facts leading to the arrests filled out and signed the citations. In response to our requests for discovery, we expected to obtain the names of the actual arresting officers and a copy of each officer’s bodycam video. Instead, we got no names, and we were given copies of hund