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   DETROIT, MI -- At least one of four men charged in the April 2   
   mob attack on Steve Utash could be sleeping in his own bed   
   tonight.   
      
   Wayne County Circuit Judge Mike Callahan revisited the District   
   Court-set $500,000 bonds for each of the four adult defendants   
   in Utash beating case: 17-year-old Bruce E. Wimbush Jr., 30-year-   
   old Wonzey Saffold, 19-year-old Latrez Cummings and 24-year-old   
   James Davis.   
      
   They are charged with assault with intent to murder and assault   
   with intent to commit great bodily harm less than murder.   
      
   Callahan set a $100,000, 10 percent, cash or surety bond for   
   Wimbush and Davis, which means they will have to come up with   
   $10,000 for release pending trial; but set a much smaller bond   
   of $25,000, 10 percent, cash or surety, and GPS tether   
   monitoring for Cummings.   
      
   Saffold's attorney requested his bond matter be adjourned to a   
   later date.   
      
   Attorneys defending Wimbush and Davis, after hearing the amount   
   set for Cummings, asked that their clients get a reduced bond if   
   they wore GPS tethers.   
      
   "No, I think the bond that I previously set was appropriate,"   
   Callahan responded. "It will remain just the way it is."   
      
   Family members of Cummings seemed pleased with the judges ruling   
   regarding their relative.   
      
   "His bond is low though, so he could really get out," said   
   Dulynta Green, the 16-year-old brother of Cummings, after the   
   hearing.   
      
   Green said his brother might have been involved but he wasn't   
   the "leader." The "leader," says Green hasn't been arrested yet.   
      
   "He's going to get caught eventually," said Green ."He's still   
   roaming around. you keep roaming , you're going to get caught."   
      
   Green said he doesn't believe the attack was racially motivated.   
   Anyone who would have hit 10-year-old David Harris that day   
   would have been beaten up, he said.   
      
   Green, Darrell Rhodes, a 16-year-old cousin of Cummings, both   
   said they don't think this would have received the same   
   widespread media attention had Utash been black.   
      
   Since the attack, Green says police are "crazy over there," he   
   said meaning their presence is significantly increased since the   
   beating in the area of the east side gas station.   
      
   Police said as many as 12 participated in the attack.   
      
   A fifth juvenile suspect is being prosecuted in the juvenile   
   court and is additionally charged with ethnic intimidation.   
      
   "I'm going to kill him, I'm going to kill him," Deborah Hughes,   
   the neighbor who stopped the attack, told police she heard   
   Cummings yell before during the attack.   
      
   Cummings doesn't have a job but attends an adult education   
   program in Ferndale.   
   Because defendants have made contradictory statements pointing   
   fingers at one another, Wayne County Judge James Callahan   
   decided to try conduct two trials, the first for Saffold and   
   Cummings beginning Aug. 18. then Davis and Wimbush beginning   
   Aug. 25.   
      
   Wayne County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Lisa Lindsey expects   
   each trial to take about four days.   
      
   Utash remains hospitalized and "unable to distinguish reality   
   from his delusions," his daughter, Mandi Marie Emerick, wrote   
   last week on a website collecting money for Utash's medical   
   bills.   
      
   No further medical updates have been provided.   
      
   http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2014/04/detroit_judg   
   e_reduces_bond_amo.html   
      
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