Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

  When talking about Michigan criminal justice reform, which we do from time to time on this blog, one of the subjects that comes up regularly is compensation of the wrongfully convicted. If you haven’t run into the subject before, it refers to the government providing financial compensation for people who have been wrongfully convicted […]

  We’ve all wondered it before, while marathoning episodes of Better Call Saul and How To Get Away With Murder… “what does that word even mean?” Well, actually we don’t wonder that – we already know what all of those strange sounding legal terms mean. However, we realize that very few people who aren’t attorneys […]

  Every now and again the issue of hazing makes the news and there is enormous outcry to follow. People take to social media in droves, claiming that hazing should be forbidden and severely punished by the schools where it takes place. It is already illegal in almost every state in the U.S., and yet […]

Anyone who loves crime dramas and legal thrillers has seen at least one movie or TV show where a defendant tries to tell their attorney about what they actually did, and their lawyer says, “I don’t want to know!” This may seem strange to people. After all, why wouldn’t your defense attorney want to know […]

  If officials in Arkansas had their way, yesterday would have been the first of eleven execution days. After more than a decade without performing a single legal execution, the state of Arkansas had planned to administer a lethal injection to eight inmates within a matter of days. However, since scheduling the back-to-back executions, authorities […]

  Welcome back! Thanks for joining The Kronzek Firm for the wrap up of our discussion on eyewitness testimony and how unreliable it actually can be when recalling suspects and crime scene details. In the previous three articles we talked about the scientific community’s research on eyewitness testimony, and how the court’s opinion is slowly […]

  Thank you for joining us again for this discussion on unreliable eyewitness testimony. Thus far we’ve discussed the court’s approach to eyewitness testimony, and what the majority of research is revealing about how inconsistent and untrustworthy eyewitness testimony can be. Moving forward, we will be looking at the science of memory today, and the […]

  Welcome back and thank you for joining us for this discussion on eyewitness testimony, and whether or not experts believe it’s a reliable form of evidence. As we talked about in the previous installment, more and more courts these days are acknowledging the fact that eyewitness testimony may not be as infallible as they […]

  “Tell the Court, did you see a man running away from the victim’s home at four am on the morning of the murder?” “I did, yes. He was running quickly, like he wanted to get away. And he had a gun in his hand… his right hand.” “Can you tell the Court, is that […]

  A police chase that was televised on several stations around the state of Michigan has resulted in one woman facing criminal charges. She has been charged for fleeing from the police but it was the reason for her flight that is likely to result in some very serious additional charges.   Police records show […]