Lawyer: Rick Snyder refuses to testify in Flint water case, even if found in contempt

[Eugene]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Lawyer: Rick Snyder refuses to testify in Flint water case, even if found in contempt

Paul Egan
Detroit Free Press

Published 11:07 a.m. ET March 25, 2022 | Updated 6:35 p.m. ET March 25, 2022

A federal appeals court will likely be asked to decide whether former Gov. Rick Snyder and other indicted defendants in the Flint water crisis will be required to testify at a civil trial — heading off for now the possibility of them being found in contempt of court.

The likelihood of an appeal became clear Friday after lawyers for Snyder and four other indicted defendants told U.S. District Judge Judith Levy that their clients would plead the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer any questions if called to the stand in the trial in federal court in Ann Arbor.

The lawyers took that position Friday despite the fact Levy has already ruled that Snyder and the others waived their Fifth Amendment rights when they gave depositions in the case in the summer of 2020, before their indictments had been unsealed.

Levy said that if Snyder and the other defendants attempted to plead the Fifth, she would have to find them in contempt of court, which she said is not something she wants to do.

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[Bev54]

1. Off to jail then!

[onethatcares]

2. good thing they weren't

selling individual cigarettes. They'd really be in trouble.

It's either they are in contempt or not. Again, as a lower income earner you try that shit and see how fast prison hits you in the face.

I can't help thinking this entire great experiment is a lie.

[Dustlawyer]

5. Or to be a black woman ex-con who was told she could vote.

[2naSalit]

3. He can be convicted whether he does or not.

His choice as whether he wants to cooperate, he can still be tried and convicted.

[Samrob]

4. So much for loving law and order and respect for the law. nt

[bluestarone]

6. Looking forward to how this turns out

They ALL think they are above the law!

[cilla4progress]

7. No regard for

the rule of law.

[Leith]

8. Put him in prison

and make him drink Flint tap water for the rest of his life.