Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

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 […]

Man Shoots Family and Burns the Bodies Murder horrifies people. Even more so if the victims are children. But what society in general really seems to struggle with is how the victim’s body is handled after the fact. Which is why Corey Lee LaValley who shot a family of three people and then burned their […]

Stripper and Family Accused of Blackmail As Oscar Wilde claimed, “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” And that was certainly the case here, where a recent series of events sounded suspiciously like a portion of the story line in the first episode of Fox Network’s Backstrom “Dragon Slayer”, in which a stripper […]

Love is blind. At least, that’s what Chaucer claimed in the early 1400’s, and it doesn’t seem to have changed much since then. Certainly not for April Marie Abare anyway, who was sentenced in the Genesee Circuit Court for harboring a felon in the name of love.

A recent incident in a McDonalds parking lot put a whole new spin on the term “fast food”, however the end result was unfortunately not a quick and tasty meal, but rather a quick attempt to flee the scene of an accident, and a not-so-savory drug bust as well. It all began with a collision….

“Confidence in public safety is of utmost importance,” said Attorney General Bill Schuette in a recent press release, “As Attorney General, I have a responsibility to enforce the law and ensure public integrity. Taxpayers deserve honesty and accountability from those who work on their behalf.”

U of M Fraternity Under Fire The damages to the Treetops Resort and Spa in Gaylord were unbelievable. And the cost of the ensuing cleanup has been staggering. From restoring all the ceiling tiles that were torn down and furniture that was broken, to replacing urine-soaked carpets and demolished cabinetry, the total is $200,000 and […]

The Clare County Sheriff’s Department has begun an investigation into the events that left a woman dead, and her husband seriously injured.  But what makes this particular situation so much more difficult is the fact that the man accused in this Clare County murder is their 43-year-old son. As a result, he is now facing […]