ABA president sends testimony supporting LSC funding
American Bar Association President Bob Carlson recently sent written testimony to Congress supporting Legal Services Corporation’s request for $593 million in federal funding for Fiscal Year 2020.
In testimony to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, Carlson wrote that this funding “would put the LSC on a better trajectory to achieve the pledge of justice for all.”
Federal funds to LSC support civil legal aid offices serving every congressional district in the country. These offices help low-income Americans – including seniors, veterans, rural residents, domestic violence survivors, natural disaster victims and opioid victims – gain access the nation’s legal system to solve everyday problems.
LSC funding is down 43 percent since the 1980s.
Juvenile lifer skips chance to possibly get new sentence
PONTIAC (AP) — A man convicted of killing three people when he was a teenager says he was “rotten from the beginning” and is skipping a chance to possibly get a new sentence.
Michael Kvam told a judge last Friday that he deserves to die in prison.
TV station WXYZ quotes Kvam as saying, “I’m a killer, plain and simple.”
Kvam was convicted of killing a teenager, a woman and a 9-year-old girl in Oakland County in 1984. He was 17 at the time of the homicides. Under a U.S. Supreme Court decision, teens given automatic no-parole sentences are entitled to a new hearing.
But Kvam, now 52, waived that opportunity last Friday. It’s possible that he would have received the same sentence.
Consumers Energy submits report on compressor station fire
JACKSON. (AP) — Consumers Energy says a release of natural gas led to a compressor station fire that sparked concerns about keeping fuel flowing to millions of people during a bitter cold snap in January.
The Jackson-based utility said it submitted its report on the fire last Friday to the Michigan Public Service Commission. It said a plume of natural gas was released by a safety fire-gate system, mixed with air outside because of high winds, and was ignited by “extremely hot equipment” at the Ray Natural Gas Compressor Station in Macomb County.
Consumers says those were the findings of its two-month internal investigation and confirmed by a third-party consultant.
It says the fire “was precipitated by a safety venting fire-gate process that is proven safe and effective” but became hazardous in extreme weather.
Thieves keep stealing wheels from police cars
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Somebody slowed the police’s roll: Thieves keep stealing the wheels off of the patrol cars in Mississippi’s capital city.
Officials told local news outlets that three police cars were towed Saturday after police discovered their wheels had been stolen. The cars had been parked behind a police museum in downtown Jackson.
A police spokesman said it isn’t clear when the wheels were taken.
It's the second time thieves have taken wheels from a Jackson patrol car in recent weeks. A car was left on blocks outside the police training academy in March after thieves stole tires and rims.
The thieves remain at large.
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