Michigan Supreme Court overturns Flint water crisis indictments

June 28 (UPI) -- Michigan's Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling Tuesday against three former state officials over their involvement in the Flint drinking water crisis, court filings show.

The Michigan Supreme Court voted unanimously with one abstention to return the cases against former state officials Nick Lyon, Nancy Peeler and Richard Baird to return to the Genesee Circuit Court, citing improper use of a one-person grand jury.

The trio is part of a larger group of six people charged in 2021 in relation to the city's drinking water crisis. Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder was among the six and pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor charges of willful neglect of duty.

"Judge David Newblatt served as the one-man grand jury, considered the evidence behind closed doors, and then issued indictments against defendants," reads Tuesday's ruling.

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