Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog
New Bill Tells What Should Happen To Police Body Cam Videos in Michigan
When an old woman falls in the bathtub and can’t get up, she may be able to call 911 for help and have officers and paramedics rush to help her. But what happens to the police body cam video of that incident? Should it be shielded from public view because it contains personal, sensitive […]
[Read More]Legal Jargon: What Does That Word Mean? (Part 3)
The wait has been killing you, we know, but don’t stress. Here it is! The next installment in The Kronzek Firm legal jargon series. Because not knowing what the heck is going on in all those episodes of Boston Legal is driving you nuts. Not to worry, we’ve got your back. Or at least, […]
[Read More]Fleeing And Eluding in Michigan: What You Need To Know!
When you hear the term ‘Fleeing and Eluding” you typically think of people running from the police. In the movies, it’s usually a good guy who got caught up in a bad situation. He knows that the cops won’t believe him even though he’s telling the truth, so he runs. Sometimes it’s a bad […]
[Read More]New Michigan Law Creates Police-Operated Special Needs Database
A new law, signed recently by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, addresses the need for law enforcement to quickly and accurately identify people with special needs. The idea that drove these bills is that in the event of a missing persons case, where the missing individual has special needs, police can identify them quickly and […]
[Read More]Michigan Developer Ordered to Pay $250,000 For Medicaid Fraud
56-year-old Bashar Imam is a well-known investor and developer in the Troy area. He is also a respected member of Detroit’s Syrian immigrant community. Ask people in his community to describe him, and they would most likely use words like ‘entrepreneur’, ‘hard worker’ and ‘prosperous businessman.’ And while those may all be true, they are […]
[Read More]MAPS Update: Michigan’s Fight Against Opioid Addiction
If you read our blog with any regularity, you’ll remember the article we posted a while ago about MAPS – the Michigan Automated Prescription System. MAPS is the state’s answer to the current opioid addiction problem. It’s an online database that tracks prescription drugs, who they were issued to, and which doctor wrote the […]
[Read More]Feds Arrest Over 1,000 Gang Members – 20 Are From Michigan
In what is being called a ‘record sweep’, a total of 1,378 people have been arrested for gang related activity all over the country in a coordinated effort by the Federal law enforcement agencies. The operation took a total of six weeks to execute, and will now result in months if not years of […]
[Read More]Former Michigan Police Chief’s Wife Jailed For Health Care Fraud
48-year-old Christine Reiss, the ex-wife of former Greenville, MI police chief Mark Reiss, was recently found guilty of health care fraud. According to Montcalm County court records, the jury found her guilty of continuing to use her ex husband’s health care, even after the pair was divorced. The charges have not only affected […]
[Read More]Legal Jargon: What Does That Word Mean? (Part 2)
Here it is! The next installment in our Legal Jargon series! (Hey Michigan, you know you’ve been waiting for it.) Because nothing is more annoying than eating your body weight in popcorn and watching six consecutive episodes of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and having no idea what’s going on! We’ve had to explain […]
[Read More]A New Bill Aims To Increase Juror Pay In Michigan
You know the feeling…. You open that envelope and with a sinking feeling, you realize that you’ve been called for jury duty. While it may be inconvenient, and frustrating (and in some cases, downright disturbing) the truth of the matter is that jury duty is an important part of the American judicial system. It’s part […]
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