Judge lets perjury Flint water case go on against Snyder’s former chief of staff
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 08, 2021
Attorneys and Genesee Circuit COurt Judge Elizabeth Kelly are shown during a court hearing Monday, March 8, on the perjury charge against Jarrod Agen, former chief of staff and communications director for former Gov. Rick Snyder.
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FLINT, MI The perjury case against former Gov. Rick Snyder’s chief of staff will continue despite protests from his attorney that the charge against him isn’t specific enough, that a one-man grand jury wasn’t authorized to indict him and that the indictment was made in the wrong county.
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March 2, 2021 at 1:07 PM
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Office of the Solicitor General (photo by David Lat).
Ed note: This article first appeared on The Juris Lab, a forum where “data analytics meets the law.”
The Solicitor General (SG) is the top attorney in the United States government’s arsenal. This attorney regularly argues the most important cases before the Supreme Court and along with other attorneys in the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), argues more cases before the Supreme Court each term than any other entity. There is also a documented relationship of trust between the SG and the justices that transcends the normal bounds of the justices’ rapport with attorneys.
Judge William Crawford of the 67th District Court pondered Tuesday whether a higher court should rule on the proper place to bring charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder for his role in the Flint water crisis.
During a brief virtual hearing, Crawford asked Snyder s attorneys and lawyers working for the Michigan Attorney General s Office to consider whether he was the appropriate judge to decide
the fight over the venue for two misdemeanor charges against the former Republican governor.
Crawford noted that it was Genesee County Circuit Judge David Newblatt who acted as a one-judge grand jury and authorized the charges against Snyder.