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- DUGGAN’S DECADES-LONG DETROIT DEMOLITION DERBY
- ATTEND FRIENDS OF RETURNING CITIZENS (F.O.R.C.) SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS TUESDAYS 6 – 7:30 PM
- EXONEREE THELONIOUS SEARCY PACKS COURT; JUDGE DELAYS RE-TRIAL, DENIES TETHER REMOVAL PER NESSEL
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Author Archives: Diane Bukowski
FREE RICKY RIMMER! DETROIT MAYORAL CANDIDATE ATTY. TODD PERKINS MEETS WITH RR’S SUPPORTERS JUNE 8
By Abner Hines-Bey June 8, 2025 DONATE TO VOD at: https://www.gofundme.com/donate-to-vod We are in this battle for new leadership and Detroit Mayoral candidate Todd Perkins got our attention this evening. He cares about Detroit and Prison reform and second chances for … Continue reading
DONATE TO VOD BEFORE JUNETEENTH! KEEP STORIES OF CONVICTIONS BY CROOKED COPS, PROSECUTORS ON-LINE
DONATE TO VOD today at: https://www.gofundme.com/donate-to-vod CASH APP 313-825-6126 $MDianeBukowski By Diane Bukowski, Editor VOICE OF DETROIT June 14, 2025 DETROIT–This is an urgent plea for donations to keep Voice of Detroit alive. VOD has been published solely on-line for … Continue reading
CEDRIC TOOKS HOME AFTER 47 YRS, RESENTENCED AS 18-YR. OLD JUVENILE, LEADS WAY FOR HUNDREDS MORE
(Note: watch video above on YouTube as indicated in lower left-hand corner. To enhance sound to 600%, use Nice Volume Booster app.) Cedric Tooks released April 23 from Lakeland CF after resentencing May 16. 2025, after 47 years served … Continue reading
MICH. SUPREME COURT ORDERS RESENTENCINGS FOR LIFERS AGED 18, 19, 20, AFFECTING AT LEAST 830 IN MDOC
FAMILIES AND VICTIMS of Michigan’s juvenile lifers packed the State Capitol in 2006 to lobby for legislation to outlaw juvenile life without parole. Michigan Citizen Writing for The Voice of Detroit on-line newspaper, published since 2010, and the Michigan … Continue reading
WE REMEMBER AFENI SHAKUR JAN. 10, 1947 – MAY 2, 2016; “BLACK PANTHER PARTY HISTORY IS WOMEN’S HISTORY”
Afeni Shakur was indicted on April 2, 1969, and acquitted on May 13, 1971, of all 156 charges in what was then the longest political trial in New York’s history and the most expensive. By Ife BJ In 1969, 21 … Continue reading
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PROF. PENNY GODBOLDO, DR. MARGARET BETTS SPONSOR “MEDITATION MOVEMENT & MEDICINE” SAT. MAR. 29 10A-2P
Prof. Penny Godboldo is the sister of the late Maryanne Godboldo, who (with Penny at her side) waged an historic battle against the CPS, police kidnapping of her 13-year-old daughter to force a dangerous RX on the child. Dr. Margaret … Continue reading
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MICH. SUPREME COURT TO RULE RE: LIFERS CONVICTED UNDER 21, OTHERS CHARGED WITH FELONY MURDER
CEDRIC TOOKS Re-sentencing hearing February 26, 2025 By Diane Bukowski VOD’s Editor Diane Bukowski and legal analyst Travis Herndon attended a hearing Feb. 26 for Cedric Tooks, now 65, who has been in prison since 1978 on first-degree murder … Continue reading
DUGGAN’S DECADES-LONG DETROIT DEMOLITION DERBY
This is a re-published story from 2014. ALL of VOD’s 2,000 plus stories since 2010 are still available by entering key words into the search engine (with recent posts in the sidebar at right). These Donations help VOD keep … Continue reading
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ATTEND FRIENDS OF RETURNING CITIZENS (F.O.R.C.) SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS TUESDAYS 6 – 7:30 PM
FURTHER INFO ON FRIENDS OF RETURNING CITIZENS: http://voiceofdetroit.net/wp-content/uploads/FORC-pamphlet.pdf VOD’s editor Diane Bukowski and legal analyst Slim Herndon attended the support group Tues. Feb. 4. It was very well-attended by at least 30 politically conscious activists, many of whom spent decades … Continue reading
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EXONEREE THELONIOUS SEARCY PACKS COURT; JUDGE DELAYS RE-TRIAL, DENIES TETHER REMOVAL PER NESSEL
Courtroom packed with Thelonious Searcy supporters as Judge Nicholas Hathaway delays re-trial from March 31 to May 7, denies tether removal; defense motion hearing re-set from Jan. 31 to Feb. 27 Mich. COA in 2021 found trial judge Timothy … Continue reading
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