Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

  You might feel alone, sitting in the dark in your house, with no one else around. But if you’re online, whatever you’re doing can be traced back to you. It’s a fact that many people in Michigan forget while they’re committing crimes with their computers. Whether it’s downloading child pornography, looking up instructions to […]

  There isn’t a week that goes by without a story making headlines about someone who embezzled money from their workplace. But why?. Why would someone steal money that isn’t theirs, when the chances of getting caught are so high? Surely they don’t want to go to prison, do they? Well, of course they don’t […]

  Things are about to change for certain young people in Van Buren County, Michigan. In the past, if you commited a crime, it was likely to stick around on your record indefinitely. And while juvenile records are usually sealed from public view, that doesn’t mean they’re inaccessible! However, a new program proposed by the […]

  Welcome back to our two part series on common tax scams in Michigan. As fraud and financial  crime defense attorneys, we’ve helped a lot of people over the years who’ve been accused of financial crimes when in fact, all they did was make a mistake. However, we also know that there are numerous people […]

Every year the Internal Revenue Service releases their ‘dirty dozen’ list – a list of the 12 most pervasive tax scams that end up costing people a small fortune. Scams that are illegal in every state in the U.S., and can rob people of money they were counting on. Scams that, if you decide the […]

  In 2009, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office discovered 11,341 untested kits. They were sitting in boxes in a police storage warehouse, piled as high as the eye could see, gathering dust. No one remembered they were there. Nothing was being done about them. It was a terrible discovery, but it instigated a statewide drive […]

  If you’ve ever heard of the term ‘sugar daddy” (and we’ll wager that you have) then you can probably figure out what a ‘sugar baby’ is. Yes, that’s right – the younger member of a ‘sugar lifestyle’ arrangement is the sugar baby (usually a young girl in her 20s), while the sugar daddy is […]

  When most people hear the word ‘weapon’ they picture a gun, or possibly a knife. Maybe a baseball bat, or a pair of brass knuckles. What they don’t usually imagine is an ashtray, a beer bottle, a chair or even a car. And yet all of these things can be a weapon, when used […]

  In 2012, The United States Supreme Court ruled that handing down a life sentence to minor, no matter how serious their crime, was unconstitutional. Then, four years later in 2016, SCOTUS revisited the issue, and ruled that all ‘juvenile lifers’ – minors who’ve been given life sentences for the crimes they were convicted of […]

  Ask the average person what the crime of Indecent Exposure‘ is, and they’ll probably tell you it means ‘flashing’ someone. (This is the part where you envision a disheveled man in a trench coat, jumping out of a hedge in front of a woman and whipping his coat open to show that he’s wearing […]