Wendy Baxter
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Wendy Baxter is a judge in the civil division of the Third Judicial Circuit Court of Michigan for Wayne County.
Baxter faces charges she influenced case
According to the Detroit News, Wayne County Circuit Judge Wendy Baxter was questioned in Center Line's 37th District Court by the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission for allegedly trying to illegally influence the outcome of a murder case and covering up her actions, specifically, the complaint accuses Judge Baxter of contacting the lawyer of Adrian Bell in a 1995 murder case. Baxter allegedly told her clerk to tell Bell's lawyer that she believed the prosecutor had overcharged the teenager, which led the defendant's attorney to waive his right to a jury trial. Judge Baxter then found Bell guilty of first-degree murder. The newspaper reports, according to the complaint filed with the Judicial Tenure Commission, Bell's family was not advised of their rights, and Baxter is accused of falsifying documents.[1]
Baxter rules in favor of audit
Judge Baxter ordered that Detroit Public Schools must turn over financial documents in a community audit. Judge Baxter said in the order, “It is ordered that the defendant will notify Plaintiff of costs associated with providing compact disc(s) to Plaintiff pursuant to his FOIA requests and further, will provide said copies of compact disc(s) within twenty one days of entry of said Order by this Honorable Court."[2]
Contact
Address
Third Judicial Circuit - Civil Division
2 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48226
See also
External links
- Third judicial circuit court of Michigan website
- Baxter faces charges she illegally influenced case
- Pair Ordered to Stand Trial in Mutilation Case
- Hargrave-Thomas murder trial
- Baxter rules in favor of Sean Combs
