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All rights reserved. All of the cases handled by Kolodziej will be reviewed by the Attorney General’s Office to make sure defendants received due process. Kayla is a Web Producer for ClickOnDetroit. Barberi said he's still uncertain of the best path forward. Nessel said she's now requiring all staffers to get training and will look to see if anyone else in her office knew about this improper relationship.

Since taking office on Jan. 1, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has withdrawn the state from 23 cases that were championed by Bill Schuette. Brian Kolodziej, who was hired in September 2018 under former Attorney General Bill Schuette, was put on administrative leave and subsequently resigned last week after the relationship came to light, said Attorney General Dana Nessel. Supervisors of Brian Kolodziej, a one-time Macomb County assistant prosecutor and former assistant attorney general who prosecuted a Central … Assistant Attorney General Brian Kolodziej resigned from his position after he admitted to an improper relationship. “It never occurred to me that we would have to train prosecutors to not engage in intimate relationships with witnesses,” she said.

Barberi had represented Ian Elliott, who pleaded no contest to third-degree criminal sexual conduct in Isabella County and is serving a year in prison. Nessel reported the case to the attorney grievance commission for ethical violations and the Michigan State Police are investigating whether to charge him criminally. Elliott is a former Central Michigan University student who was accused of sexually assaulting two women. Barberi's concerns regarding courtroom behavior were never brought to her attention, Nessel said, but have already spurred changes in the department. "I have ordered an immediate internal investigation to be conducted on all files handled by Mr. Kolodziej during his tenure in our office," Smith said. LANSING, Mich. – A prosecutor who has made his living trying sex offenders is accused of his own sexual wrongdoing. Nessel wouldn’t provide details of the situation because it’s still under investigation, but noted that she learned of it after a complaint was filed with State Police. Barberi said he raised concerns about Kolodziej as early as April, when a judge in the case determined the assistant attorney general had violated court rules with “false pleadings.” At sentencing, Kolodziej verbally attacked Barberi’s defense of Elliott, he said. The Free Press was unable to reach him for comment.

Assistant Attorney General Brian Kolodziej resigned last week. "To say that I am horrified and disgusted is really an understatement," Nessel said. © 2020 www.detroitnews.com. If a criminal investigation leads to charges against Kolodziej, Nessel said the matter would be referred to another prosecutor’s office to pursue. Kolodziej prosecuted the criminal sexual conduct case of Ian Elliot, the Central Michigan University student government president who pleaded no contest to assaulting two CM co-eds and received one to 15 years in prison. Before she joined the team in 2018 she worked at WILX in Lansing as a digital producer. "...The only right thing to do is to dismiss these charges.". "If he was just having a sexual relationship with one of the accusers, that would be so wrong,” Barberi said. LANSING — Michigan State Police have launched a criminal investigation into an assistant attorney general who has been accused of having an inappropriate, intimate relationship with the victim in a rape case he was prosecuting.