The Michigan Court of Appeals has affirmed the convictions and prison sentence of a Lenawee County man found guilty after a 2021 crash that killed his passenger.
In an unpublished opinion issued June 17, the COA upheld the jury convictions of William Michael Badger Jr. for operating while intoxicated causing death and reckless driving causing death. The court also affirmed his sentence of 54 months to 15 years in prison, with the terms to be served concurrently.
The case stems from a crash in Lenawee County in which Badger, while driving a neighbor’s convertible, lost control of the vehicle and overturned it, killing passenger David Campbell, 78, of Blissfield…