Snyder walks away from Flint poisoning due to faulty indictment process

[Takket]

I agree with this decision. A "one person grand jury" is absurd. I wish this had been done correctly because he is guilty as sin and should be locked up.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/judge-dismisses-criminal-charges-against-ex-michigan-gov-rick-snyder-in-flint-water-crisis

Snyder acknowledged that state government had botched the water switch, especially regulators who didn’t require certain treatments. But his lawyers argued that criminal charges were the result of “political persecution” by the attorney general’s office.

Michigan prosecutors typically file charges in a district court after a police investigation. A one-judge grand jury was rare and had mostly been used in Detroit and Flint to protect witnesses who could testify in private about violent crimes.

State prosecutors, however, chose that path in the Flint water saga to hear evidence in secret and get indictments against Snyder and others.

But the state Supreme Court unanimously said a one-judge grand jury can’t issue indictments. The process apparently had never been challenged.