It doesn’t appear that this attorney was part of the monied Briggs family.

Allen (not Allan) Briggs grew up in Mount Clemens, Michigan, and passed the Michigan Bar in April 1957.  He then became an assistant prosecutor in Macomb County in the mid 1960’s until 1966.  He then moved to the upper peninsula (Ontonagon County) in 1971, where he became the Upper Peninsula’s first bachelor adoptive parent–of two boys, ages 11 and 13.

This article says that at the time (1971) he was the Ontonagon prosecuting attorney.

Six years later, his adoptive sons then ages 17 and 19, there were allegations that Briggs sexually assaulted a 15-year-old boy in Northern Michigan, but he faced no consequences and moved to an even friendlier jurisdiction.

He died in 2009 in Thailand. I think this obituary fills in a few gaps, even though there were no “file photos” to print:

https://www.pattayamail.com/838/obituary.shtml

Thanks again to Reader #2 for this information.

A reader did some digging after my post yesterday about the unnamed attorney in Ontonagon referred to in the December 6, 1976 edition of the Pick & Axe. Turns out the attorney was Allen Briggs.

The Pick & Axe continued to cover the kid glove treatment being given to attorney Allen Briggs in the wake of an accusation that he committed a sex crime against a 15-year-old boy.

In this January 14, 1977 edition of the badass Pick & Axe, it is revealed that the accuser was advised by Assistant MI AG John A. Wilson and MSP Lt/Det Schwartkopf to take a polygraph. A polygrapher with the MSP concluded the boy was “being truthful when he claims [Briggs] took indecent liberties with him.” Briggs was not asked to take a polygraph.

A follow up article in April 1977 makes it plain that Prosecutor Sterling Schrock was a big a POS as his credibly accused, but apparently never charged, buddy “Al” Briggs.

And of course I recall another attorney with the last name Briggs–Basil “Mickey” Briggs who provided assistance to his cousin Everell E. Fisher, Jr. when his name was turned in on a tip to the OCCK task force.

Everell E. Fisher, Jr.

More on Fisher and his assistance from Cousin Mickey:

https://catherinebroad.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/researcher-12-24-20.pdf

If Al is from the same dynasty, it appears there is another black sheep of the unindicted, uncharged variety in addition to “Ev.”