Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

Defendant Must Pay Crime Victim Rights Assessment In People v. Earl, the defendant appealed an order to pay a $130 crime victim rights fee. This case originated in the Oakland Circuit Court. The Michigan Supreme Court released their opinion on this fee increase March 26, 2014. In the appeal, the defendant challenged the requirement to […]

2 Men In St. Joseph County, MI  Facing Meth, Gun and Possession of Wild Deere Charges In the recent St. Joseph County Meth arrest, Michigan law enforcement narcotics officers from southwest Michigan found an interesting combination of criminal activity. While the melting snow usually heralds warmer weather and the return of spring, in St Joseph […]

Statewide Drunk Driving Crackdown In Michigan Law enforcement agencies in 26 counties are cracking down on Michigan drunk driving activity. Extra patrols are already on the roads, and will continue through April 7th. 144 law enforcement agencies across the state, including MSP Troopers, sheriff’s deputies and city police officers, will be involved in this effort […]

Muskegon Meth Attorneys MSP’s West Michigan Enforcement Team recently received information that items used in the creation of meth had been discovered in a dumpster behind a local bar in Egelston Township. Inside the dumpster was a gym bag containing a variety of items commonly used in the “one-pot” meth production method, also called the […]

Many Police Don’t Understand Open-Carry in Michigan Johann Deffert recently filed a lawsuit against the City of Grand Rapids, the police chief, and three officers for alleged civil rights violations when police stopped him for openly carrying a gun. The incident happened on March 3, 2013, when a woman called 911 about a man walking […]

Michigan Marijuana Prosecutions of Four Kent County Officers Four Corrections Officers with the Kent County Sheriff’s Department have been arrested for Marijuana charges following an investigation that began with postal service workers suspicions about a package in the mail. USPS workers contacted the Kent Area Narcotics Enforcement Team to report a suspicious package which, as […]

As the debate over illegal immigrants continues on, more Michigan youths face deportation, even though they have no criminal history and have lived in the United States for several years.

We’ve all known people who seem less than truthful. We notice that sometimes the things they tell us just don’t add up. Usually, they are small lies. Sometimes, the lies are big enough that we make a mental note never to put our trust in that person again. But then there are the people who […]

When a judge misuses the power and trust that we’ve given them, bad things happen. The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission is a part of the process that polices our bad judges. This week, the Michigan Supreme Court made a decision about Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree. The court ruled that McCree (a) had a […]

In Rosemond v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that to convict of a federal crime of firearm use during drug trafficking, the government must show that the defendant knew beforehand that another party would use a gun — and this must occur far enough in advance that the defendant can abort commission of […]