Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

  Tim Barkovic, a well-known defense attorney practicing law in Macomb County, has been accused of stalking his neighbors. According to police, this is only part of an on-going campaign against the couple who live next door, whom Barkovic has allegedly harassed for over a year now.

  Will Decriminalization Happen in Michigan? Michigan is hardly teetering on the cusp of decriminalization. But there are signs, glimmers in the distance if you will, of change on the horizon. Of a future, however far away it may be, in which we treat addicts like people who need help, and not like criminals. A […]

It’s an established fact. Put an addict in prison and he will either find a way to keep getting high behind bars, or he will simply wait it out and get high again when released. Why? Because for many addicts—not all, but a substantial number nonetheless—the drug use is not the problem. It is in […]

What Affect Would Decriminalization Have on Crime Rates? So far we’ve discussed the radical drug decriminalization policies that Portugal adopted 16 years ago, and how they have affected drug use throughout that country. But a major factor in the war on drugs that has yet to be touched on, is the issue of crime. Drugs […]

Is Decriminalization the Answer to the War on Drugs? In the first installment of this series, we discussed the singular and thoroughly unprecedented experiment in drug policy that the Portuguese government has engaged in for the last 16 years. The complete decriminalization of all drugs, without exception. And the surprisingly successful results they have had […]

  When you hear the word “decriminalization”, what comes to mind? For some people, the first thing they think about is marijuana. For others, it is a much broader word association, relating more to the dictionary definition of the word than its actual application. But for a growing number of people, here in Michigan and […]

Few Human Trafficking Cases Reported so Far  Last year Michigan lawmakers invested a vast amount of their time and energy in creating human trafficking laws that focused on saving the victims and prosecuting the perpetrators. But in the intervening time since those laws have hit the books, the Michigan State Police say that very few human […]

Timothy Fradeneck Accused of Strangling Wife and Kids Few crimes capture the noir aspect of the public’s imagination, and spawn as many “true-crime” novels as the murder of one’s own family. It is a subject that invites much morbid speculation, and a great deal of controversy about mental illness. 38-year-old Timothy Fradeneck, who is charged […]

Apparently, up until very recently, it was possible to stop at a particular gas station in Detroit to top up your car’s gas tank, and purchase a “starter kit” for crack cocaine use. Odd as that may sound, it appears to be true. And until Detroit Police Chief James Craig, working in concert with the […]

Laws regarding guns and gun control are set by both individual states, and the federal government. Over the past few years, states around the U.S. have become more lenient regarding gun laws and, as is commonly the case, federal law has slowly changed to reflect that. But gun laws are not something that everyone is […]