Criminal charges dismissed in 2022 Camp Michindoh boating death

HILLSDALE — 1st Judicial Circuit Court Judge Sara Lisznyai dismissed criminal charges lodged against a man who was charged in connection with the July 28, 2022, fatal boating crash on Lake Michindoh which claimed the life of an 11-year-old girl from Indiana. Matthew John Kovacic, 25, appeared in court April 3 with his defense attorney, Michael Nichols, who filed a motion to quash the 2B District Court’s decision to bind the matters to the higher court after a preliminary examination hearing “failed to show willful or wanton negligence” on Kovacic’s part. He argued that testimony entered by a witness and…