You've got a few problems here...
[[1) The Clerk's office ok'd the filing. What they should have done was ask, "Has it been 365 days since you became a Detroit resident?". When he answered no, they would have responded, "Ok, come back when it has been 365 days....lucky for you, it's before the deadline."
[[2) The Michigan Supreme Court has several opinions which make specific kinds of residency requirements unconstitutional by state law. Yes, you can certainly have a residency requirement. But it cannot be for a specific amount of time.
[[3) The statute also reads that you have to be a resident 1 year before filing. This is another problem with the language. What if it has been 2 years of residency? The language doesn't say, "at least" 1 year or "for more than" 1 year...I have no idea how this will play out.
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