By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
DETROIT — Defense attorneys were in federal court in downtown Detroit earlier this week alleging that the government engaged in misconduct and committed a number of errors to get convictions for all six Highwaymen Motorcycle Club members earlier this year, the Detroit Free press reported.
The Free Press reported that defense lawyers on Tuesday told U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds that the prosecution withheld evidence that could have helped their case, manufactured a bogus conspiracy theory “and paid one witness $25,000 for his testimony with the expectation that he would get additional bonuses if he helped secure a conviction.”
“We don’t think that the government should be paying witnesses bonuses,” one attorney Jim Thomas said, according to the Free Press.
Prosecutors denied any wrongdoing and said the convictions were legitimate, the Free Press reported.
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