Drug prosecutor's conduct being investigated
Thu, Jun 5, 2008
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DETROIT (AP) The Michigan attorney general's office plans to take over an investigation of Wayne County's lead drug prosecutor, who is accused of using perjured testimony in a 2005 cocaine case.
The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press reported that Mike Cox's office is stepping into the case involving Assistant Prosecutor Karen Plants after prosecutors in four other counties declined to handle the probe.
Plants' lawyer Kenneth Mogill said his client didn't do anything wrong.
Plants was suspended in April after the Michigan's Attorney Grievance Commission charged her with misconduct. She is accused of allowing an informant and two Inkster police officers to lie under oath during a cocaine conspiracy trial.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy asked that another agency investigate Plants.