6/27/14 - An appeals panel has refused to halt the trial of three suspects charged with the murder of a former Livingston County man. The Michigan Court of Appeals has declined to overturn a judgeâs decision regarding photographs that the prosecution wanted to enter into evidence in the trial of three men charged with the murder of 53-year-old John Mick. The Goodrich man was shot to death at the Flint River Village Apartments in August of 2010. Mick, who lived in Brighton for 14 years, had worked as an engineering technician at the GM Proving Grounds in Milford before retiring to take a security guard job in Flint. More than two years passed without a break in the case until 22-year-old Floyd Gene Perkins and 21-year-old Kenya Ali Hyatt, were arrested in connection with another crime in Mt. Morris Township. Flint Police say they were able to obtain information from that case that led to Perkins and Hyatt being charged with felony murder, armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery by the Genesee County Prosecutor's Office. A third co-defendant, 33-year-old Aaron Williams, was charged in the case last year. Their attorneys objected to the photographs being entered into evidence last week, a motion that was granted by Genesee County Circuit Court Judge Judith Fullerton. Prosecutors then sought to stay the trial while they appealed that ruling. But the appeals panel declined to overrule Judge Fullerton and allowed the trial to resume. Testimony will continue today. (JK)
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