Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

Most women like chocolate, or flowers, or silly stuffed toys for Valentine’s Day. But not Patrick John Bergeron’s wife. No, to mark that most commercialized of romantic occasions, she wanted her wrists slit. And her husband, ever the sentimental, obliged her. But as it turns out, assisted suicide is illegal here in Michigan, and Bergeron […]

Owner of burned home facing felony charges for lying Thomas Henry Kieft, the 56-year-old owner of a Muskegon home that was completely destroyed by a fire, is being charged with lying to officers during a violent-crime investigation.

In the earliest months of 2014, a Cass City man led Michigan conservation officer Joshua Wright on a wild, five mile snowmobile chase. Thirteen months later, a jury has finally convicted the fleeing snowmobile driver. But the road has been a long one, and the state had to fight hard to win this one.

Mother begs Judge, “Please keep my son in jail!” You have only to watch any one of the many gangster and mafia shows on TV in the last few years to realize just how pervasive this myth has become in your culture. Gangsters are cool. Breaking the law makes you “cool”, and desirable. This is […]

Melting Snow Reveals Meth Dump Sites With the increasingly sunny days of April now upon us, and the snow melting away to reveal winter’s hidden debris, law enforcement agencies across Michigan are faced with that most toxic of spring surprises – meth dump sites.

It has taken three separate trials and more than three years, but Jeanne Hank’s family members feel that they finally have justice for the murdered 47-year-old woman. Lorenzo D. Relerford Jr. has been sentenced to serve life in prison.

What about Michigan Marijuana Arrests? When Colorado legalized marijuana, one of the issues they had hoped would be resolved was the problem of racial disparities in drug-related marijuana arrests. But even now, with pot completely legal throughout their state, the problem of race in drug prosecution persists.

Michigan’s House of Representatives has recently begun what is expected to be a long and drawn out effort to cut off the dead weight from the state’s penal code.  This includes laws that have been on the books for ages but aren’t being enforced, which makes them unnecessary. For example, in Michigan it is illegal […]

Woman pleads guilty to embezzling from Bay City Hotel Shawn M. Bair, a 37-year-old woman from Bay County, has recently pled guilty to embezzlement charges. According to the court documents, she is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the Bay Valley Resort and Conference Center in Frankenlust Township, where she worked. Back in July […]

Woman Going to Prison After Shooting Up McDonalds Drive-through From all the bacon Christmas ornaments, bacon-flavored candy, bacon-print dresses and humorous bacon lover’s slogans on T-shirts, it is safe to assume that people love bacon. There are even online bacon loyalty clubs like the Royal Bacon Society and Farmland, which offer everything bacon-related from recipes […]