Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

Fleeing and Eluding Charges Follow High Speed Police Chase Jessica Mae Utter, a 31-year-old resident of Elkhart, Indiana was recently arrested after leading police on a high speed chase through three townships. She is now facing fleeing and eluding charges here in Michigan, where the courts do not tend to look kindly on people who […]

Armed Robbery of Hotel Guests Charges Dismissed Imagine showing up for the continuation of your preliminary examination for armed robbery, and instead of a long litany of the things you’ve done wrong, the Prosecutor asks the judge to dismiss the case! Sounds impossible? Jesse R. Martinez probably thought so too, until it happened to him […]

Judge Dismisses Involuntary Manslaughter Charge in 2013 School Pool Drowning A Judge recently dismissed charges in a drowning case that has been dragging on for two years. Johnathan Sails, a former substitute teacher, was accused of involuntary manslaughter after a student drowned in a pool at East Detroit High School in 2013. But as of […]

Former U of M player Charged with Videotaping Sex Without Consent Logan Tuley-Tillman, a former U of M football player who was dismissed from the program last month, was recently charged with several felonies.  He was arraigned in the 15th District Court in Ann Arbor, where he is said to have stood mute beside his […]

Kimario Deondrae Rowland-Taylor, a 24-year-old resident of Ypsilanti, has been charged with the death of 20-year-old Maurice Anthony-Charles Kirkwood, who was shot to death in southeast Lansing recently. According to police, the shooting took place in the 3200 block of Trappers Cove Trail in the early hours of the morning on Friday, October 2nd. Apparently, […]

Man Admits to Armed Robbery of Gas Station In May of 2013, Tyler J. Venema applied for a job at a BP gas station near his home. He was not hired, and as a result, he turned to the only option he could see available to him at the time. Armed robbery.

Emily Suzanne Smith, an 18-year-old resident of Haslett, is accused of having played a role in a recent Meridian Township shooting that took place on Labor Day.

Home Invasion Incident Results in Felony Charges According to police records, just before 11 pm on Monday, September 14th, Chris J. Shorkey broke into someone’s apartment. While there, he allegedly bludgeoned someone with a handgun and threatened several others with it as well. After the assault, he drove away on a Harley Davidson, leaving the […]

Routine Traffic Stop Ends With Heroin Charges When Dannielle V. Crispin was pulled over by a State Trooper in late September, it was a simple routine traffic stop. The trooper had been traveling behind her Buick sedan, when he noticed that the vehicle had a defective brake light. He ran the plates and discovered that […]

New Legislation aims to Revamp Poaching Penalties Poaching. It’s a problem that every state in the country, indeed almost every country in the world, has to face. The word “poaching” tends to conjure images of elephants, rhinos and other iconic African animals. However, Michigan is equally affected by the unlicensed and illegal killing of it’s […]