The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to hear appeals of a lower court order dismissing the misdemeanor charges brought against former Governor Richard Snyder in the Flint water crisis. As a result, the state attorney general’s office says the court has left it with no option but to consider the Flint water prosecutions closed.
It’s disappointing to Flint resident Melissa Mays, who was first to complain about the water.
“We have elders, friends, neighbors who have passed away,” Mays said.
Mays says it’s “horrific” the attorney general isn’t pursuing the case further.
The denial is predicated on the State Supreme Court’s own 2022 ruling in People v Peeler. That upended a century of precedent upholding the use of one-man grand juries.
