On Friday August 6, Chief Circuit Judge James C. Kingsley ruled that Leo Ackley, a Battle Creek man convicted of killing a 3-year-old girl in 2012, will receive a new trial. In May, the Michigan Court of Appeals issued an order that the case go back to Calhoun County circuit…
In 2011, a Michigan State Trooper was sentenced to 20 months in prison for allegedly engaging in inappropriate sexual conduct with a 12-year-old girl. David Morikawa was convicted on two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, and was a trooper at the Iron County post. He was granted parole in…
In July of 2011, 24-year-old Justin Stephens was convicted of murdering an 80-year-old woman in 2006. Stephens, who was 17 at the time, allegedly killed a Hubbardston resident, Bernita “Billie” Cunningham, in her home. The murder went unsolved for several years, and was featured in a show called “Silent Night,…
In June of 2012, charges brought against a Bay City substitute teacher accused of engaging in sexual activities with students were dropped by Bay County Circuit Judge Kenneth W. Schmidt. Heidi L. Lewis, then 43 years old, had been charged with six counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a…
Tiffany Nicole Lang’s conviction and sentencing for the August 2010 torture of her infant son will stand, according to the Michigan Court of Appeals. Lang was convicted by Muskegon County 14th Circuit Chief Judge William C. Marietti of torture and first-degree child abuse. The defendant was sentenced to 13 to…
In July of 2010, Devon Glenn Jr. was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison by Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain for his role in the August 2009 robbery of Buddy’s Mini Mart. Glenn was allegedly carrying a fake sawed-off shotgun when he and another man, Georval Pennington,…
In April of 2000, Reginald Walker, a Detroit-area man who was 46 years old, allegedly shot and killed Larry John Troup inside a liquor store on the northwest side of Detroit. The incident occurred after Troup and a friend who were in the store were paying for their purchases, and…
On July 31, 68-year-old Matthew Andrew Carter was sentenced to 165 years in prison for the alleged sexual abuse of children living in a group home Carter ran for the poor. A news article at AnnArbor.com states that Carter traveled from Florida to Haiti frequently to abuse the children. He…
In November of 2010, Ed Foster was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 1998 death of Deborah Boothby in Covert Township. Boothby was beaten before being run over by two cars and left on the side of the highway to die, according to a…
Nearly one year ago Bay County Chief Circuit Judge Kenneth W. Schmidt set aside 48-year-old Rebecca J. Shimel’s guilty plea on grounds that Shimel did not appear to comprehend her actions when she pleaded guilty to the 2009 fatal shooting of her husband. Shimel pleaded guilty in February of 2011…