So it turns out that Theresa Brennan was not the first Livingston County jurist ever thrown out of office. It happened before, way back in 1930, and it’s a story that involves a young traffic cop, an old judge and the governor’s chauffeur threatening to beat the hell out of someone in downtown Brighton. Sit back and relax. This story is a good one. It starts back in May of 1930, when Brighton was a sleepy little town that sat along U.S. Route 16, which is now called Grand River Avenue. The first automobiles had come to Michigan in about
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