The court of claims has jurisdiction to hear cases filed where the State of Michigan is a Defendant.
[1] The prior system which the court of claims replaced was not only unsatisfactory from a procedure point of view but put state officials in the position of defendant, judge, and jury in each case.
[2] The ordinal court under Judges Sample rules would provided for six terms a year, each three weeks long.
[3] There was ballistic evidence uses in the conviction, however new testing declared that Ripan's gun could not have filed the shot.
[3] Ingham County, Michigan Circuit Judge Leland W. Carr who presided over the hearing found no merit to Ripan's claim that he was entitled to $10,000 for work he performed while he was sentenced to life at hard labor.
[5] It was noted by many at the time that "the American policy of refusing compensation to men who are wrongly imprisoned for long periods is one of the greatest defects in the administrations of justice.