Former Gov. John Engler came back to the state Capitol the same day he was named as the interim President of Michigan State University amidst a sex abuse scandal that has rocked the East Lansing campus. Kathleen Gray/Detroit Free rpess
The plea deal former Michigan State basketball player Travis Walton received in a 2010 assault and battery case was not uncommon, according to the East Lansing city attorney and his former assistant who signed off on the lesser charges.
David Meyers, the assistant city attorney who worked the Walton case, is not pleased with his portrayal in an ESPN story from last month that detailed a number of incidents over the past decade of violence against women by former MSU men’s basketball and football players.