An Inversion of Justice in Mason County

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Welcome to Mason County, Michigan, where an assault victim can face over 12 years of incarceration while the person who multiple witnesses saw punch kick and strike that victim repeatedly before the police intervened gets off scot free.  That person who got a "Get out of jail free" card was named Jackson Parker Star-Chief (pictured below, from a 2023 cager match), who beyond some bruised knuckles will see no punishment for his reported violence against Maddox Rosloniec across from the Ludington Police Department (LPD) complex on the early morning of January 19, 2025.

The Ludington Torch rose to the defense of Rosloniec in this early February article, we have since received some extra body cam videos that make one wonder why the law is coming down so heavily on him, but we've also been keeping track of how his attackers who drove here from Manistee and engaged in egregious assaults are being treated by the courts.  And for the most part, those three are being pursued, albeit without the more serious charges the victim is facing.  In our analysis we primarily use the LPD incident report and the MICourt case tracking app and encourage our readers to review those when applicable to keep us honest.

Maddox David Rosloniec of Coopersville is facing three 4-year (12 years total, $5000 bond) felony charges of resisting and opposing causing injury, those injuries all consistent with three pursuing officers falling down on the slick ice on the streets that morning.  Our videos show no active resisting once Rosloniec fell down.  None of the five eyewitnesses to the assaults interviewed by LPD had Rosloniec being anything other than a victim of assaults by the Manistee crowd, those are in the report.  

Nathan Robert Brown of Manistee is facing one 4-year felony ($5000 bond) charge of felonious assault for his actions.  According to witnesses, he was said to have flashed a knife and waved a pipe menacingly, attacked Maddox, and went after and fought with a witness/victim.  

Riley Spencer Ward of Manistee is facing two four-year felonies and a one-year misdemeanor (9 years total, $5000 bond), namely two felonious assaults and one simple assault.  According to witnesses, he was said to have hit a witness/victim multiple times with a baton/pipe, then punched and kicked Rosloniec.  Ward was the one primarily upset with his girlfriend coming to Ludington, leading to the physical altercation that took place. 

Lastly, there is Jackson Parker Star-Chief of Manistee.  While Rosloniec seems to be an anomaly as an obvious assault victim becoming accused of three felonies and 12 years of incarceration simply for leaving a scene, Star-Chief shows that Mason County's embrace of injustice can go the other way too.  Star-Chief's involvement in the violent actions of that morning is expressed all over in the statements in the police report, for example:

Star-chief allegedly started the violence, initially attacking Landon, then picking up the baton of his friend who used it on Landon, began beating Rosloniec with it in the face, then kicking, punching and stomping on Rosloniec when his actions forced him to the ground and finally running away when the police arrived. 

But he wasn't as good staying on his feet as Rosloniec, so apparently, he doesn't even get one R&O charge.  With all of these potential assault charges against him, Star-Chief was given a pass, first by the LPD by labeling him a witness to felonious assault, and arresting him solely for a non-violent misdemeanor charge for disorderly conduct, presumably because the 18-year-old was legally drunk (a .139 BAC when he was processed at the jail) and created a public disturbance.

This charge, the police report, and the other potential civil infraction of MIP were reviewed by Mason County Prosecutor Beth Hand (pictured below), who decided that Jackson Star-Chief, the initiator and finisher of that morning's violence using a borrowed dangerous weapon, was guiltless of any crime.  He didn't even need to go to district court except for paying the jail for his time there.

One of the people who was attacked by Star-Chief, Maddox Rosloniec, is facing a dozen years of jail for first being assaulted by three hoodlums with weapons deployed from Manistee and then being chased down and assaulted by three hoodlums with a Taser deployed and law badges from Ludington.  The prosecution of justice in Mason County is clearly inverted, with victims being prosecuted and drunken, violent offenders released to society without any repercussions other than one morning in a jail drunk tank.

[Willy]

Thanks for the information X. Another fine job of presenting the upside down justice system.