Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

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.

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 […]