Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

In March of this year, a new law went into effect that allows municipalities around the state to request that a judge declare a home to be a “public nuisance”, and have it locked up. This court order would render the house vacant and then sealed up for a full year. But to earn this […]

Former Postal Worker Indicted  In 1986, in Edmond, Oklahoma, 14 postal workers were shot dead and another 6 wounded by Patrick Sherrill, a postal worker who succumbed to uncontrollable workplace rage. After his terrifying shooting spree, Sherrill killed himself. Over the next decade or so there were at least 20 incidents in which postal workers […]

Tax Fraud Conviction Likely to Result in Prison Time Happy Asker, the Detroit-based founder of Happy’s Pizza, is due in court for sentencing. As a result of having allegedly under-reported income and defrauded the government out of millions of dollars, he has been convicted on a single charge of conspiracy, along with 32 counts of […]

Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws Under National Scrutiny About a month ago we revisited this highly volatile subject, updating you on where we were as a state on the subject, and what changes were hoped for in the future. But the five bills still working their way through the legislature have yet to amount to anything, […]

For those of you who don’t watch CSI or Law & Order, a cold case is a crime that has gone unsolved for years, sometimes decades. It is considered one of the hardest types of crimes to solve, simply because the evidence is usually lost, forgotten or irrevocably damaged. Add to that the fact that […]

Was it Really Fleeing and Eluding? DaJuawn Wallace was making a quick trip to the store to pick up medicine for his girlfriend, when he noticed the headlights of a vehicle behind him speeding up. It was dark and almost 2 a.m. at the time. Wallace didn’t want to be involved in an accident, so […]

Teens Arrested For Making False Terror Threats To Michigan High Schools You probably did it as a kid. Back in the days before caller ID, kids would call people up and pretend to be someone else, trying to get the person they called to agree to something silly. Or trick them into saying something embarrassing. […]

  Politicians work very hard to be in the spotlight. But this often backfires when they make a mistake, and end up with constant media coverage of every aspect of their humiliation. Just as Flint Councilman, Eric Mays, had every minute of his court appearances documented for public consumption, Detroit Senator Virgil Smith is likely […]

The Firefly Music Festival is a four day long, open-air music festival that takes place in Dover, Delaware. With performers like Snoop Dog, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and Modest Mouse drawing thousands of people from all over the country, it can be expected that there is going to be some shenanigans. But in this […]

The recent deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Freddy Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, and Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, highlight the problem of police brutality.  It is a subject rife with tension and emotion. The American Civil Liberties Union in Michigan has developed a way for the public to help increase governmental […]