LANSING, Mich. (AP) - An assistant state attorney general has been suspended following his arrest on gun charges.
Eaton County Prosecutor Jeffrey Sauter told The Associated Press Wednesday that he authorized two misdemeanor warrants charging James Shell with possession of a firearm while under the influence of alcohol and reckless use of a firearm.
Shell's attorney is expected to turn him in for arraignment at a later date.
Shell also is president of the Grand Ledge School Board and was arrested Thursday. Sauter says no one was injured during the incident southwest of Lansing.
Attorney general's office spokesman John Sellek says that Shell was suspended pending the Eaton County investigation.
There's no listed home phone number for Shell. A message seeking comment was sent to his work email address.
Former Michigan assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell is doing what lawyers often do - he's suing.
Shirvell is going after a Detroit-based lawyer for delivering information that led to his firing from the Michigan Attorney General's Office.
While he was an assistant Attorney General, Shirvell used a blog to assail a University of Michigan student government president for promoting "a radical homosexual agenda" on campus.
He was later fired and is now being sued by Chris Armstrong, the former student government president, in federal court.
Now, Shirvell is suing attorney Deborah Gordon, who is representing U-M student Chris Armstrong. Shirvell claims Gordon fed information to investigators at the attorney general's office. He also has accused her of defamation.
Gordon says the lawsuit is "crazy." Shirvell expects the case will be combined with the pending lawsuit filed against him by Armstrong. Shirvell moved to North Babylon, N.Y., after leaving Michigan state government.
Shirvell explained his actions in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper last year:
Attorney General Bill Schuette has filed a lawsuit challenging the state Civil Service Commission's authority to approve contracts that allow benefit plans to cover the live-in partners of unmarried state employees.
The lawsuit says the commission exceeded its authority under the state constitution.
The contracts extend benefits to unrelated adults in a household -- that includes same-sex partners -- as well as their dependents
A federal judge will hear the state’s request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging state law that allows juveniles offenders to be sentenced to life without parole this afternoon.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, there are more than 350 people serving life without parole sentences in Michigan who were convicted for a crime they committed when they were under 18 years old. Michigan has more juvenile offenders serving life terms than any other state except Pennsylvania.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says that office’s Child Support Division has passed an important marker: It has now collected more than $100 million in child support for delinquent parents.
The division launched in 2003. Since then, it’s used Michigan’s tough child support laws to enforce court-ordered payments.
Michiganis the only state that makes failure to pay child support a four-year felony.
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