Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

  Keith Appling seems to have had a run of bad luck when it comes to guns and the police. Well, maybe bad luck isn’t quite right. Stupidity seems more appropriate. Back in 2015 he was arrested no less than three times for gun-related crimes. Appling, the 25-year-old former Michigan State University basketball star, was […]

  Cosplay is a major phenomenon these days. Thousands of people spend months making elaborate costumes so that they can dress up as characters from books, movies and comics at conventions. Why? Because fantasy is fun. Not into cosplay? Well, perhaps you were a Dungeons and Dragons fan as a kid, or you have a […]

  Every now and again someone does something that serves as a perfect example for everyone around them of what NOT to do! Case in point: Martin “Pharma Bro” Shkreli, the controversial former pharmaceutical CEO, who achieved notoriety for raising the cost of Daraprim, a life-saving drug, from US$13.5 to US$750 per pill.   In […]

  Welcome back, and thanks for joining Michigan’s premier criminal defense lawyers, The Kronzek Firm, as we wrap up this article series on how investigators links specific guns to crime scenes. In our previous articles we looked at the first four items on the list, including gunpowder residue, firing pin impressions and bullet trajectory. Moving forward […]

Thanks for joining us again in our discussion about evidence that links guns to crime scenes. In the previous article we talked about gunpowder residue and the trajectory of a bullet after it’s fired. Moving on we are going to look at another two key factors that help investigators and crime scene techs link specific […]

  One of the things we get asked a lot, is questions about evidence. After telling us there is no evidence against them, clients want to know how the police can claim they were in a certain room, when they weren’t there. How a certain weapon could possibly be connected to them. Or why investigators […]

  You thought we’d forgotten, didn’t you? Forgotten your next installment of legal jargon, when everyone knows it’s your favorite article series on this blog. Well, for goodness sake, why on earth would we go and do a thing like that? So…. tada! Here it is! The wait is over. You can now go back […]

  Every time we post an article about wrongful convictions, like yesterday’s story about Ledura Watkins, it reopens the discussion among our readers about how easily a miscarriage of justice can occur. According to current research, approximately 10,000 people are wrongfully convicted every year in the United States. What is even more troubling is the […]

  An entire generation has been born, grown up, and gone on to have their own children since Ledura Watkins was sentenced to prison for First Degree Murder. For over 40 years he has lived life behind bars, convicted for a crime that he didn’t commit, on the strength of a single hair found at […]

  You wouldn’t hand your credit card over to a stranger would you? Of course not! But wait….. you might have already done exactly that, and you just didn’t know about it. In other words, you may have been skimmed! Skimming devices, which are attached by criminals to ATMs and gas pumps, “skim” your credit […]