Jury selection is to begin to today in the trial of Joe Morrison, Pete Musico (Munith) and Paul Bellar (Milford). The three men are each charged with gang membership, providing material support for terrorist acts and felony firearm. The three men face up to twenty years in prison.
All three men were members of the Wolverine Watchmen and though “they didn’t go out and participate in a plan to kill the governor, the group provided the motive, means and opportunity for those individuals that did do so” Assistant Attorney General Sunita Doddamani explained in court in 2021.
This piece of the conspiracy to kidnap Governor Whitmer will play out in a Jackson County Court as this is where the Wolverine Watchmen would train and run gun drills with one of the plots “ringleaders”, Adam Fox, who was convicted along with co-conspirator Barry Croft in August.
The three men contend that they absolved their affiliation with the Wolverine Watchmen prior to the acceleration of the kidnapping plot in the summer of 2020.
The trial is expected to last two weeks.
