Can you imagine spending two and a half years behind bars (about half that time in jail, the other half in prison) for two make-believe felonies that arose from merely abiding by the terms of an established probation? Our readers will recognize the case of Lance Eichler, relentlessly pursued by four women in our Mason County system of 'justice': Prosecutors Lauren Kreinbrink and Beth Hand pushed the lame charges against Eichler in the 51st Circuit Court featuring the "Honorable" Intellectually Lazy Susan Sniegowski, claiming local Probation Officer Megan Myers was a victim of aggravated stalking because Eichler had sent her too many probation-related texts and emails.
Sniegowski would convict Eichler of the felonies of stalking and using a computer to commit a crime on Valentine's Day and send him to prison in the summer of 2024, facing up to 7 years of incarceration, minus time already served, as we reported here with on-location analysis. Kreinbrink would resign in that period of time, perhaps responding to her conscience, leaving Hand to defend the appeal that followed. And she was unsuccessful in defending the specious charges, with the Michigan Court of Appeals ruling that the charges were fallacious in a scathing opinion that was immediately set for publication at the end of September.
Lance Eichler on bass, free at last
And what of the "victim" Megan Myers? We exposed her role as the villain she truly was back in a court case where she engaged in an extended course of conduct in sexually harassing a female contractor at the workplace that she still calls home. Myers has the unenviable distinction in these two cases as having her name come up repeatedly and almost always with a negative connotation.
The Ludington Torch considers itself a connoisseur of justice, so when the appeals court made their decision, we rejoiced having saw the travesty unfold with our very own eyes back in February of 2024. But Prosecutor Beth Hand and Intellectually Lazy Susan weren't through with their brand of justice, which includes keeping an innocent man in prison for nearly two months more than they should have.
Beth Hand had the power to mount her own appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court within 56 days after the appeals court September 29th ruling, and a look at the court records show that this was never attempted. The court record shows only that the case was reopened on November 24th, this last Monday, and the original order was vacated and finally filed on November 26th, the day before Thanksgiving. Intellectually Lazy Susan waited 58 days after the appeals court blistering opinion to vacate her intellectually lazy order, and thus an innocent man was kept in prison for nearly an extra two months because of her ambivalence to seeing justice happen.
Intellectually Lazy Susan could not even be bothered to review her own vacating order, listing the appeals decision repeatedly in the documents happening on 7-29-25, rather than two months later; if that were the actual decision date, he would have been imprisoned an extra 120 days more than he should have been, rather than 58. But the intellectually lazy and our malicious prosecutor aren't overly concerned that their actions led to caging this man for 30 months when all he did was follow the state's orders more explicitly than their delicate probation officer had wanted.
In Mason County, the rats are deeply imbedded in the grain at the courthouse and none of them have apparently learned their lesson yet even after their tails got cut off.
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That question: "Shouldn't this case have been handled with a complaint within the Probation system?" was probed during Eichler's trial by the defense quite often. From my recollection, Myer's supervisor, Matt Chitwood indicated that Eichler was in the process of being reassigned to another probation officer after listening to Myers' claims but would not otherwise be penalized. Another PO was chosen, but Myers apparently pushed someone in the prosecutor's office to charge two felonies for his actions after talking with Chitwood.
That someone does appear to be Krienbrink, and she represented the state in the courtroom, with support from Beth Hand in some of the briefs and motions.
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