Judge Herrington ruled that while he believed Richard Krohn was reasonably afraid of an assault, he did not believe it was the defendant’s intent to harm or assault Richard Krohn. The court recognized the lower standard of probable cause, but found insufficient evidence that the defendant intended to assault Richard Krohn, that it was the Defendant’s intent to stop the tractor from being taken
Malcolm Gladwell in his book The Tipping Point states that a pivotal turning point occurs in “that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.” Did you know that by the year 1920 all states had made “wife beating” illegal? Astonishingly, it would take another fifty years before the tipping point would occur and society would begin to see domestic violence as something far more insidious than “just a family matter”.
In 2014, Sheriff Hanson alleged that Prosecutor Rutkowski committed public misconduct and requested the Attorney General’s office investigate his allegation. On Monday, July 17, 2017, the Michigan Attorney General’s Office declared that they found “no wrongdoing in the handling of this matter.” After conducting an extensive and thorough investigation, neither Attorney General Schuette nor his investigators had any concerns on how the Special Prosecutor was appointed or how the case was resolved by the Special Prosecutor.
You see, generation to generation, families pass on parenting styles; gentle or harsh, right and wrong. We know only what we learn, and we learn often by what has been done to us. Unless we receive education to know better, we remain trapped in the old, and sometimes dysfunctional and harmful styles of parenting, and will repeat what we know /what we have learned – and we will sometimes pass on a legacy of abuse. But there is hope. When we know better, we do better.
At the Mid-Winter Conference for the Prosecuting Attorney Association of Michigan (PAAM), Prosecutor Tim Rutkowski was recognized for his 20 years of service to the citizens of Michigan. A lifelong resident of Huron County, Mr. Rutkowski has worked in the Huron, Sanilac and Tuscola county prosecutor offices as an Assistant Prosecutor and Chief Assistant Prosecutor, and since January 2009, he has been the elected prosecutor for Huron County.
