Jennifer Crumbley's appellate lawyer has been fined $1,657 over his request to get Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald and her team kicked off the case on alleged misconduct grounds.

Oakland County Circuit Judge Cheryl Matthews issued the fine on June 9 after previously concluding that appellate attorney Michael Dezsi's request to have McDonald disqualified was for an "improper purpose because the court clearly didn't have jurisdiction to decide the motion." In her order, she called Dezsi's motion "frivolous," stating that his grounds for seeking McDonald's removal had already been raised before, and were therefore redundant.

While Matthews had sanctioned Dezsi in April over his motion, it wasn't until June 9 that she announced the $1,657 fine, which is how much Dezsi — who is court

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