LADA?names Goodson chief counsel and chief operating officer
Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc. announced this week that Nicole Neal Goodson has been promoted to chief counsel and chief operating Officer.
Goodson rejoined LAD in 2009 as a staff attorney. She has held the positions of managing attorney and most recently director of litigation. She will focus on creating new initiatives and redefining existing programs to provide comprehensive civil legal services to impoverished residents of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
Goodson was recently selected as a Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law Fellow. She will participate in the 2017 Racial Justice Training Institute.
Goodson graduated from the University of Detroit with her Bachelor of Science degree. She earned her law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.
Prison release for man after shooting conviction dropped
DETROIT (AP) — A man is to be released from a Michigan prison after another man told investigators he fired shots that wounded a woman during a dispute between two Detroit families.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy says Monday that she has agreed with the Michigan Innocence Clinic to have Marwin McHenry’s assault with intent to murder, felonious assault and gun convictions dropped.
A jury convicted McHenry in 2013 and he was ordered to serve up to 27 years in prison. A judge dismissed the charges Monday.
Worthy’s office started its own investigation as McHenry appealed the conviction. A statement later was taken from another man who said he fired a weapon during the 2012 dispute.
Worthy says her office will continue investigating the other man’s “possible involvement” in the shooting.
Panel Discussion: ‘Race and the Criminal Justice System’ May 3
This free event, sponsored by the FBA Criminal Law and Book Club Committees, is inspired by the book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” by Michelle Alexander. Join colleagues at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 3 at the Detroit Room in the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse, 231 West Lafayette Blvd., Detroit. The panel discussion will feature Chief Judge Denise Page Hood, Judge Sean F. Cox, Chief Federal Defender Miriam Siefer, and Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel Lemisch, moderated by Andrew Doctoroff.
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