Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

15-year-old Daniel Bell III has accepted a plea offer from the St. Clair County Prosecutor’s Office in a recent attempted murder and robbery case. Unfortunately for Bell, the plea offer doesn’t lighten the load all that much and this young teen is facing at a substantial amount of prison time in his future.   Bell […]

In 2014, then- US Attorney General Eric Holder said that he was “cautiously optimistic” about efforts to legalize cannabis in the United States. Since then, the number of states that have passed laws legalizing medical marijuana and decriminalizing possession of pot have grown rapidly. Some states like Colorado and Washington, have very lenient laws. Others, […]

There are a number of off-the-wall sports practiced around the US that involve the destruction of food items. None of them has made it into the Olympic Games yet. Pumpkin chunking, potato cannons and the ubiquitous egg-and-spoon-race are but a few of the sports. While there are lots of entertaining and frankly, strange “food games” […]

Two female inmates recently made a break for it while being transferred into a vehicle after a court appearance in Brighton, MI. It was less than one hour before both were back under lock and key after a massive manhunt in Livingston County.   32-year-old Lisa Finlayson of South Lyon, and 40-year-old Nicole Vermeylen of […]

If you have been following our previous posts, you will know that there was a bill in the works for quite a while that addressed the issue of “revenge porn.” Well after months of consideration, having passed both the Michigan House and the Senate, Lt. Gov. Brian Calley signed SB 924 and 925 into law […]

Every controversial subject has passionate believers on both sides of the fence, lobbying for what they believe is the best possible outcome. The use of predictive analytics in criminal justice is no different. In this case, if you were to step back and take an objective view of the subject, you would see that there […]

While there are certainly people who believe that predictive analytics has no legitimate place in our criminal justice system, not everyone agrees with them. Having discussed the opinions of certain detractors in the first installment on this article, we take a look at a few of the people who believe that predictive analytics are the […]

The use of Predictive Analytics is widespread in today’s world, and is exceedingly common in business. From projecting increases in certain sales, to predicting the spending habits of buyers, it has made the cost of doing business for companies all over the world that much easier. But when it comes to the use of predictive […]

  The Michigan Court of Appeals has handed down their much anticipated ruling on who will be deciding the fates of juvenile lifers. The answer is that our judges, not juries will determine that.   According to the ruling, the appeals court convened “a special conflict panel to resolve the conflict between the previous opinion […]

  Life is full of opportunities to take a negative situation or experience and turn it into a lesson you can learn from. To make stepping stones out of your stumbling blocks. To make lemonade from lemons. This is no more true than for Jarrett Adams, who after being wrongly convicted of rape, has begun […]