Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

Muskegon Marijuana Advocate Charged Derek Antol, former Executive Director of the Greater Michigan Compassion Club, is facing felony drug charges . Police allege he was growing marijuana and selling it from the Deuces Wild Smoke Shop on East Apple Ave. in Muskegon. According to the Muskegon County Prosecutor’s Office, eight other associates of Antol’s, are also […]

Recap of Trial: Day Three The trial continued last Friday for Theodore Wafer, 55, who is facing 2nd degree murder charges as a result of the fatal shooting of Renisha McBride on his front porch in Dearborn Heights last year in early November. On the third day in court, his attorney Cheryl Carpenter raised multiple […]

No Charges Filed Against Student The 17-year-old Fowlerville student accused of poisoning his math teacher’s coffee with visine, will not be facing criminal charges. The decision was made following an investigation conducted by the Fowlerville police department and the Livingston County prosecutor’s office. Mary Aldecoa, the victim of the teacher poisoning, believes that she was […]

What Has Happened So Far On day one of the Wafer / McBride murder trial, the defense put forward their theory of self-defense to justify the actions of Theodore Wafer, who is charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter for the fatal shooting of Renisha McBride. Wafer shot McBride in the face through his screen door […]

Saginaw Teen Gets 20 Years  The second of four young men charged with armed robbery and assault, following a mini crime spree in Bay City, has been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for his part in the criminal exploits. On Monday, July 21st, Bay County Chief Circuit Judge Kenneth W. Schmidt sentenced […]

Detroit Porch Killing Trial Begins Last Monday jury selection, always the first event in a murder trial, got underway in the Wafer / McBride murder case. In this instance, Wayne County Circuit Judge Dana Hathaway said that the selection process could take as many as four days before the trial began, but thankfully, it took […]

Shots Fired at Two Teen Boys James Kenneth Seeley, a 33-year-old resident of Flint, has been found guilty of shooting at two 14-year-old boys outside his house in September 2013. According to police records, at 7 pm on Sunday, September 29th, officers were dispatched to the scene of a shooting near Arizona Avenue and Lewis […]

Former Leelanau Prosecutor Charged Clarence Gomery, a well-known Traverse City attorney and the man who once served as the Leelanau County prosecutor and also assistant prosecutor in Grand Traverse County, has been arraigned on charges of soliciting murder. According to police, Gomery attempted to hire someone to murder Christopher Cooke, the attorney who represented Gomery’s […]

Defendants Sentenced Wonzey Saffold, a 30-year-old resident of Detroit and one of the men charged with the mob beating of Steve Utash, was sentenced recently to a minimum of 6 years in prison. He is one of several people who are facing prison sentences for their involvement in the attack on Utash. Utash was attacked […]

Dearborn Man Facing Charges On Monday, June 30th, Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad, a 36-year-old resident of Dearborn, MI, was formally arraigned on a felony charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder. While Saad’s intention may not have been to kill anyone, and the initial charge was for intending to cause […]