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December 17, 2025
LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed an emergency parole appeal in the 4th Circuit Court in Jackson County to reverse the parole granted to prisoner Trenton Lisle Solomon, 51, incarcerated at the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson. The Attorney General additionally filed a motion requesting a temporary stay of Solomon’s release on parole, which had been scheduled for December 16, 2025. The motion to halt the parole was granted by the Court on December 15, 2025.
Solomon pled guilty in September 2021 to one count of Aggravated Stalking after relentlessly stalking two victims. He was originally scheduled to be sentenced in October 2021 but cut off his GPS tether and failed to appear for sentencing, resulting in the issuance of a bench warrant. Solomon was arrested on the bench warrant in late 2023 and was sentenced in February 2024 to 3 years, 11 months to 7 years, 6 months’ incarceration.
Despite this history, the Michigan Parole Board granted parole to Solomon on November 7, 2025, with a projected parole date of December 16, 2025. Upon review, the Department concluded, per the filed appeal, the Parole Board’s decision to grant Solomon parole is a clear abuse of the Board’s discretion.
In its filing, the Department heavily cites material documenting Solomon’s long history of stalking and violent behavior, as well as his repeated failures to comply with probation or parole terms. At the time of his conviction, Solomon had four prior felony convictions, 13 prior misdemeanor convictions – including offenses involving stalking and domestic violence – and 17 prior personal protection orders entered against him. Solomon has previously been granted probation six times and parole four times but has never successfully completed such community supervision.
“People who have been victims of stalking and violence shouldn’t have to live in fear because someone with a long history of criminal behavior is being prematurely released,” Nessel said. “My office acted to protect the victims in this case, and for their safety and the safety of others, Mr. Solomon should remain in prison.”
On December 15, 2025, the 4th Circuit Court granted the motion to halt Solomon’s parole temporarily, allowing for the appeal to be heard. Solomon will remain incarcerated until further order of the Court.
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