Judge refuses criminal charges against Detroit mother in police stand off over forced drugging of daughter
A judge refused to reinstate criminal charges Monday against a mother who resisted police forcing their way into her home last March to take her teenage daughter during a dispute with a Child Protective Services worker over medications.
Wayne County Circuit Judge Gregory Bill ruled against claims by the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office that 36th District Judge Ronald Giles committed judicial error in August when he threw out the charges against Maryanne Godboldo.
Bill said Giles was correct in concluding there was insufficient evidence presented by the prosecution to order Godboldo to trial on charges of illegally resisting and assaulting police for allegedly firing a shot at them.
“It is clear to me that he (Giles) doesn’t think the defendant shot at anybody,” Bill said, concluding that if a shot was fired inside the house, it was fired at the ceiling and perhaps not by the mother.
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