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  • Marilena David named Director of the State Appellate Defender Office
  • Michigan Supreme Court vacates and remands in Kvasnicka
    From the April 2025 Criminal Defense Newsletter
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    From the April 2025 Criminal Defense Newsletter
  • MAACS Administrator Keeley Blanchard is named a Champion of Justice!
    Michigan State Bar Names its 2025 Award Recipients
  • SADO Attorney to argue before MSC in May
    May 7, 2025, Hall of Justice (Lansing, MI)
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    From the January 2024 Criminal Defense Newsletter
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    Detroit Free Press, January 24, 2024
  • SADO client Crystal Mulherin exonerated!
    Wrongful Conviction Unit’s second exoneration since 2021
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    Governor Whitmer appoints career public defender to the bench
  • Breaking News: Decision holding mandatory life without parole unconstitutional for 18-year-olds is declared retroactive
    People v Poole (Docket No. 352569) decided January 18, 2024
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    January 10 & 11, 2024, Hall of Justice, Lansing, MI
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    From the December 2023 Criminal Defense Newsletter
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