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Prosecutor outlines plan to shift many Detroit misdemeanor cases to city and to pilot community courts countywide
Summary
Wayne County Prosecutor Kim Worthy told the committee that the City of Detroit has passed an ordinance to assume many lower-level misdemeanor prosecutions previously handled by the county prosecutor's office, and described a county-led effort to develop community courts and restorative-justice pilots.
Kim Worthy, Wayne County prosecutor, told the committee the City of Detroit recently passed an ordinance to assume responsibility for many lower-level misdemeanors that the county prosecutor previously handled. Worthy said the change aims to preserve the county prosecutor's resources for violent felony cases and other high-priority work. She said the county will continue to handle certain misdemeanor categories that the office considers ineligible for transfer, including domestic violence, stalking and certain firearm-possession-while-intoxicated charges; a list of excluded offenses was shared with the committee in materials.
Worthy said the change took about a year and a half of outreach and that other municipalities in Wayne County…
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