Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

  Yesterday he Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) made public the results of a consumer survey conducted here in Michigan. The results are very interesting. They reveal that a majority of registered Michigan voters are opposed to legislation which would make over-the-counter cold medication containing pseudoephedrine available by prescription only. Pseudoephedrine is an important ingredient […]

  Ask anyone about the hippocratic oath, and most people will parrot back the phrase, “Do no harm.” However, while it may come as a surprise to you, this phrase doesn’t actually appear anywhere in the Hippocratic oath. In addition, the oath itself is not actually required for a doctor to practice medicine. Some hospitals […]

If you’ve never heard of MI-VINE, don’t worry – you’re not alone. Most of us here in Michigan  have no idea what it is and how it could impact us in the future. With that in mind, we would like to take this opportunity to explain exactly what MI-VINE is, and why recent updates and […]

  In our recent four-part article series, we discussed at length the issue of false confessions, and why they are such a tragedy. Those articles have sparked considerable debate, and one of the issues that was brought up time and time again is the issue of wrongful convictions. So we thought we would share with […]

  Civil asset forfeiture is a subject that brings on very heated debate, particularly in Michigan. People tend to be very against it, or wholeheartedly in favor of it. Wherever you stand on the issue, the fact remains that Michigan’s civil asset forfeiture laws are in need of an overhaul. And while it’s happening slowly, […]

  In the very first hours of 2015, Mason Mizwicki died of a drug overdose. He was at a New Year’s eve party in Watervliet, MI with friends. They were using drugs. While he lay dying, Mizwicki called out for help. But his friends chose not to assist him. Why? Because the teenagers he was […]

  If you are just joining us, we recommend that you take a look at this four part series on false confessions from the beginning to give you a clearer picture of our position. However, if you’ve been with us from the start, then you will know about the Reid technique and the fact that […]

       Thank you for joining us for the third installment in this series on false confessions, and the Reid technique of interrogation. Today we want to break down the controversial Reid technique, which law enforcement agencies all over Michigan and the US use for interviewing and interrogating suspects during criminal investigations. It is a […]

  Thanks for joining us again for this discussion on false confessions, and how easy it is to get someone to admit to a crime they didn’t commit. Having already discussed a study in which psychologists were able to get college students to admit to crimes they weren’t guilty of during a controlled interview during […]

  According to the Innocence Project, more than 1 in every 4 people who were wrongly convicted of a crime and were later exonerated by DNA evidence, made a false confession. That’s over a quarter of the total. How did that happen? Why would an innocent person confess to a crime they didn’t commit? The […]