Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

New Legislation Could Make Assaulting Sports Coach or Referee a Felony The Michigan Senate is currently in the process of considering a set of bills intended to enhance penalties for anyone charged with assaulting a sports coach or referee. And in the wake of 44-year-old John Bieniewicz’s death last year, some feel that this couldn’t […]

This is a free country, and we are entitled to freedom of speech. But don’t mistake that freedom for meaning that you can say whatever you want, whenever you want. It may come as a surprise, but there are limits to what a person can say, and threatening a police officer’s life is actually against […]

Will a Naked Stroll in the Snow Result in Criminal Charges? It’s not every day that you see a naked man in a cowboy hat on the side of the highway in January. Although if you’re a police officer, you may see this sort of thing more often than most. As Doreen Olko, Chief of […]

It happens in every profession and every walk of life – one person’s poor choices and ill-thought-out actions make everyone around them look bad. (After all, we’re lawyers – we’ve heard ALL the bad lawyer jokes!) But as one former Detroit cop is learning in the wake of a sentence for racketeering charges, this is […]

Do we really need so many Michigan lawyers? And what does this mean for those searching for legal representation? Common sense will tell you that our state is just loaded with lawyers. Looking around city streets, you will see billboards and bus stops just teeming with advertisements for different law firms. Even watching daytime television […]

Logan’s Law Would Mandate Animal Abuser Registry On January 18th, Senate leaders chose not to place the bi-partisan bill package entitled “Logan’s Law” on the Michigan Senate agenda, thereby not allowing the House bill to be put to the vote. But the sponsors of Logan’s Law, Rep. Paul Muxlow and Rep. Harvey Santana, have not given […]

How many people have falsely confessed to crimes due to police pressure during interviews only to be cleared by DNA evidence years later? This troubling question may lead people to wonder how false confessions can happen in the first place.

New Charges in Double Fatal Accident Lying to the police is a bad idea. But lying to the police to cover up a crime, or to avoid the consequences of your actions is even worse – especially when you get caught! Which is certainly the case for Laken Williams, a 21-year-old from Lexington, who is […]

U of M Students Accused of Causing Property Damage to Hotels As if fraternity and sorority houses don’t have enough troubles with bad press already, here is another evolving story involving six greek houses from the University of Michigan. Some of their members are now facing the possibility of criminal charges for thousands of dollars’ […]

Child Porn on Shared Home Computer Over the past four years, federal criminal charges in child porn cases has increased nearly threefold. In addition, the average sentence for those convicted is roughly ten years in prison. According to Families Against Mandatory Minimums, most federal child porn offenders had no previous criminal record either. Now a […]