My 911 Call, The "Attempted Murder" of My Daughter, & Oppression of the Family Death Penalty

[Land Shark]

77. Thanks (and here's an example of the Kafkaesque nightmare you mention)

Kafkaesque: In "The Trial", the protagonist Kafka sets out doesn't know what he's on trial for. Somewhat similarly, in a case like this one, there's a real trial with stated charges, but the real charges are unstated: it's to take away your parental rights. So I saw a bunch of jockeying between the prosecutor and the defense counsel in light of what the real issues were of parental rights as well as immigration issues. The prosecutor later admitted, but only after I sent a letter of inquiry, that an ICE agent had been in contact with their office and admitting there must be an 'immigration issue of some kind.' Subsequently the not guilty disposition, I'm told, made the immigration issues go away. So there's a Kafkaesque sense of not knowing what the real charges are, at least not all of them.

But then it goes further, as shown in the OP, even though a finding of not guilty was entered and all criminal records were therefore destroyed by operation of law and court order, in a very real sense being found not guilty results and resulted here in an arguably worse outcome: civil commitment, the stigma of that as well as NGRI, and a demand that there be no visitation with the children even upon release - a form of relief they could not have obtained had they won in the original action against Karita for termination of parental rights that was in fact filed, then later dismissed. It's arguably worse because many or even most people, forced to choose, would choose prison over not being able to see their children. Thus, a not guilty disposition in cases like these is arguably equal to or worse than a guilty disposition in terms of practical effect.

Kafkaesque Michigan case law: one case says that merely being in prison is not grounds for termination of parental rights. But, being in prison AND wanting to reunite with your children IS grounds for termination. Thus, the only way to keep your parental rights is not to care to ever reunite with them. There's a catch-22 for sure.