Snyder Flint Trial Defense: Go After Whitmer for Covid-19 Deaths

摘要

Michigan prosecutors should charge their sitting governor for Covid-19 deaths if they want to pursue former Gov. Rick Snyder for his role in the Flint water crisis, Snyder's legal team argued Tuesday.For a heated hour-and-a-half, a lawyer from the Michigan attorney general's office and Snyder's (R) attorney debated whether his steps taken as governor were a criminal dereliction of his duty to protect the people of Flint from lead in their drinking water, or merely non-criminal discretionary acts of omission taken in Lansing.