Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

Battle of the Bikers? Most bikers just want to hang out with their friends and ride their motorcycles, without making or getting into any trouble. But like people in every walk of life, it only takes a handful of badly behaved ones to give everyone else a bad name. And this was certainly the case […]

Animal Cruelty Legislation Delayed Current Michigan law says that anyone convicted of mutilating or killing an animal can be sentenced to prison for up to four years.  There is a current Senate bill aimed at increasing penalties and reclassifying aspects of the law.  However, voting on the bill has been delayed.

The end of the week saw a number of witnesses take the stand in the Joel Wilson trial, first of which was Ann Tushaus, an accountant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She told the court about the forensic accounting investigation she conducted in the fall of 2012. Tushaus claimed to have studied bank […]

A good rule to live by is: real life is not like the movies! In films and popular TV shows, people involved in criminal enterprises often appear to lead glamorous and interesting lives and get away with all manner of illegal shenanigans without ever getting caught. In real life, people involved in criminal enterprises often […]

5 Facing Charges After Teen’s Death On New Year’s Eve, at a time when people around the world were gearing up to usher in the new year, a 16-year-old Watervliet HS student named Mason Mizwicki was dying of prescription methadone overdose. But now, in the wake of his death, five individuals are facing charges for […]

Joel Wilson, seated in court in a subdued grey suit, with a look of mild interest on his face, is looking at a stacked deck. And it is not stacked in his favor. Wilson is accused of operating a Ponzi scheme in the Bay Area that scammed a number of local investors out of millions, […]

After a two year investigation, a 72 count indictment, and a year of court dates, a federal drug trafficking case has finally been closed. Spanning both Michigan and Ohio, nineteen people have been sentenced. They will each be serving a significant amount of time behind bars.

Bailing your friend out of jail could be chalked up as a “good deed”. Unwittingly handing a cop your cocaine, however, is not so good, and will likely land you in a world of trouble, as one Clinton Township man recently discovered when paying a police officer with what can only be called “dirty money.”

Ask any medical student in the middle of their residency about the strange things people insert into their various orifices, and you will be able to settle in for at least an hour’s worth of horrifying stories about hairbrushes, light bulbs, and flashlights. But as it turns out, medical students aren’t the only ones who […]

State Senator Virgil Smith has taken on what may seem like an insurmountable task in bringing the issue of the death penalty for cop killers to the Senate floor. But according to Smith, he promised one of his constituents that he wouldn’t let 2015 pass without having addressed the issue.