Prosecutor to discuss office operations at town hall meeting
TAYLOR, Mich. (AP) — A town hall meeting designed to inform residents on how the Wayne County prosecutor’s office operates has been scheduled in Taylor, southwest of Detroit.
School threats, domestic violence, the prosecutor’s office Conviction Integrity Unit and sexual assault kits will be among other topics addressed at Wednesday evening’s meeting at the Wayne County Community College Downriver campus.
Attendees are invited to ask questions following the presentation.
This is the fourth town hall meeting by the prosecutor’s office and will cover communities downriver of Detroit.
“There are so many serious issues, right now, that my office deals with each day,” Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a release. “I want to give people an idea of what an urban prosecutor’s office is like.”
Court throws out 50-year sentence for man who killed wife
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan appeals court has thrown out a 50-year prison sentence for a former Cub Scout leader and teacher who was convicted of killing his wife.
Andrew Farley Jr. of Grand Blanc Township was convicted of second-degree murder. But the appeals court said a Genesee County judge sentenced him as if he had been convicted of premeditated first-degree murder.
The appeals court last week applied a 2019 Michigan Supreme Court decision and sent the case back to Flint.
Farley’s guidelines had called for a minimum prison sentence between 13 years and 22 years.
Investigators said Farley in 2014 struck Tiffany Caine-Smith Farley with a flashlight and stabbed her six times.
Farley claimed his wife told him that he “disgusted her” and that he was “not a man.”
“I did not intend to kill my wife,” Farley said in 2015. “I hurt because of this.”
Good behavior will trim jail sentence of Larry Nassar’s boss
EAST LANSING (AP) — Good behavior likely will cut four months off a one-year jail sentence for a former dean at Michigan State University who was convicted of misconduct in office and neglect of duty in an investigation related to the Larry Nassar scandal.
William Strampel is scheduled to be released on April 3, the Lansing State Journal reported.
Good behavior credits generally aren’t available in Michigan prisons, but they are on county jail sentences.
“We’re treating him no differently than anyone else,” said Jason Ferguson, chief deputy at the Ingham County sheriff’s office.
Strampel was dean of MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine and Nassar’s boss. He was convicted of neglecting to ensure that Nassar followed certain rules during examinations of females after a complaint was filed.
Strampel also was convicted of using his job to sexually harass female students. He was acquitted of criminal sexual conduct.
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