Michigan health director will face trial on Flint water manslaughter charges

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Source: MLive

Michigan health director will face trial on Flint water manslaughter charges

Updated 4:04 PM; Posted 4:03 PM

By Ron Fonger [e-mail]

FLINT, MI -- Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon will stand trial on charges he caused the deaths of two Genesee County men during the Flint water crisis.

Genesee District Judge David Goggins bound Lyon's case over to Genesee Circuit Court for trial on two counts of involuntary manslaughter for the deaths of Robert Skidmore and John Snyder, who prosecutors say died as a result of Legionnaires' disease, and one count of misconduct in office. ... He also faces one misdemeanor count of willful neglect of duty.

Lyon sat quietly, his wife watching in the courtroom, as Goggins read his decision, which comes 14 months after his arraignment.

The decision means the judge found there is probable cause to believe involuntary manslaughter was committed against Skidmore and Snyder and that Lyon, 49, committed the crimes.

Read more: https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2018/08/lyon_3.html

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[beachbum bob]

1. Need to include the governor too...and the rank and file who stayed

quiet. Make people accountable.

[hlthe2b]

3. That was exactly what I was about to post. That damned Governor was absolutely responsible

and should be charged along with his hand-picked political stooge, the Special Master that replaced local government.

[beachbum bob]

4. 12-15 more people should be charged. It's all about accountability and how we

take our country back

[bluestarone]

8. THIS 100%

[marble falls]

5. Why isn't the Governor and his cronies standing beside him?

[gibraltar72]

6. Governors bond scam went bad and people died.

Snyder needs to be in the dock. Any Dem. Governor who lied to a Republican congress would have been called back to at least explain himself. One candidate for governor is open to reexamining what Snyder did and didn't do.

[llmart]

7. The buck should stop at the Governor's desk...

but apparently he's another GOP coward who won't take responsibility for his decision.

[Pathwalker]

9. Snyder says he will keep his job until and unless

he's found guilty, according to local news.