FLINT, Mich. -- Former Michigan State basketball star Mateen Cleaves was arraigned Wednesday on sexual assault charges over the protest of a prosecutor who felt blindsided and believed the brief hearing would be held Thursday.
Cleaves, 38, is charged with assaulting a woman at a motel last summer following a charity golf event. Judge M. Cathy Dowd told him to turn in his passport and released him.
"I don't know how they do things in Genesee County, but we try our best to be as transparent as possible when my office is involved," Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said.