MICHIGAN STATE POLICE (THE NEW GESTAPO ?)
1. 1987: Under the Freedom of Information Act, lawyers obtained files of 25,000 "suspected subversives" (students) compiled over the years by the MSP - illegally kept files on people suspected of being communists and posing a danger to the system In a review of a book on anti-Vietnam campus activism.
2. 1989: Confessed pedophile, MSP Det. Lieutenant Robert Beadle, accused of raping two children, and burning his police cruiser to hide evidence, was denied retirement benefits. Beadle's job with MSP was to go to schools to talk to kids about predators. Define irony. See: Beadle v Michigan State Police Retirement System, 194 Mich ...
3. Lisa Hansen of Grand Rapids, Michigan, failed a polygraph “test” administered by a Michigan State Police sergeant on 22 December 2005. Hansen, a receptionist at a local Panopoulos Salon, was accused of stealing some $425 in cash and checks, which she maintained she had placed in a deposit slot at her employer’s bank. Hansen’s lawyer, Gerald R. Stahl, “questioned the lie-detector test, saying the polygraph operator badgered her before accusing her of lying.” https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=61
Hansen was criminally charged. and ordered her to perform 40 hours of community service. Now, the Michigan State Police’s polygraph operator has been proven completely wrong: on 9 August 2006, a bank employee found the missing money “stuck in a chute” at the night depository.
4. (03/05/09)--A Michigan State Police trooper is facing charges for allegedly hitting a an 8-year-old boy with a belt. The trooper, 56-year-old Patrick Sharkey, was charged Thursday with assault and battery and misconduct in office.
5.Melissa Ihrke called police to her home because her son, who was on behavioral medication, was acting violent. When a trooper from the State Police arrived, he recommended that the child needed a good spanking. He wanted the mother to take the boy's belt and hit him. According to the attorney, when she seemed reluctant, the trooper took the belt and hit the child several times on his bottom.
6. June 23, 1997: Three MSP officers faced criminal charges (two for rape). Two MSP women filed harassment charges against their superiors.
7. At a seminar my source attended at Michigan State University in November 2003, for the startup of 'Project Innocence' at Cooley Law School, My source queried the retired director of the MSP Forensics Lab about a case where two of its lab technicians (Amy Sanderson Michaud and Kyle Hoskins), had found semen stains on the alleged 'victim's' underwear in two rape cases, in Lansing and in Hillsdale, but had testified, under oath, that the MSP HAD NOT tested those samples, when in fact they DID run the tests, and the DNA DID NOT match the person tried.
The former director told the audience that he had no idea why that happened. However in a private discussion with my source afterwards he confided (off the record) that not only had he later become aware of this through an internal investigation, but that he had written to the New York Times, anonymously detailing the incident.
As a result , the Hillsdale verdict was reversed by the Court of Appeals, but the Lansing conviction is still crawling through the ponderous Michigan State 'legal system.' And the person wrongfully accused, unlike the McCollum case, still sits in prison after 19 years. Held up largely by the same prosecution attorney, Stuart Dunnings, who knowingly railroaded Claude McCollum (click here)
Of course no bad deed goes punished if you are with the police. Amy Sanderson Michaud is now working with the U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and living large in trendy Annapolis, Maryland.