Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

State Veteran Courts Serve the Needs of Michigan Vets Imagine this, if you will….. You are a young man or woman, raised in Michigan, who chooses to join the armed forces after high school. Perhaps because you are patriotic. Perhaps because it is what your father, and his father before him, did. Perhaps you just […]

In an unpublished decision, the Michigan Court of Appeals has overturned a Tuscola County defendant’s drug convictions. The Court found that only a dried, usable form of marijuana counts against a defendant in a medical pot case.

Granddaughter, Missing 17 Years, Finally Declared Dead Om September 22, 1998, 14-year-old Coral Hall went missing. Her last known location was a payphone in the Flint area, from which she called a friend to tell them that she and her grandmother had been fighting again. Records show that shortly before her disappearance, Hall had spoken […]

Most prisoner’s mail is opened and read thoroughly by prison officials who are looking for any signs of contraband, criminal activity or threats. Which is why it is rather surprising that one inmate from St. Clair County felt that he was safe mailing out a “murder-for-hire” request.

It was like a scene from a movie. A gunman behind a barricade, the street crawling with police, roads closed to civilians, a terrified hostage….. But this was no movie. And unlike what would have been the Hollywood finale to this scary scene, the situation has since been resolved without anyone getting shot or blown […]

One Missing Infant, One Dead Baby Boy When Melissa Mitin, the young Okemos woman accused of murdering her newborn infant last year, testified in court recently to the fact that she had given birth again just weeks ago but didn’t know where her baby was, the state held their breath. Somewhere out there was a […]

Arson Plea Results in Prison Time Pretty much anyone would agree that bed bugs are awful and that, given half a chance, they would do whatever was necessary to get rid of them. But as it turns out, some of the more…. extreme bed bug removal methods may actually be criminal, as was the case […]

CSC Charges Stem From Alleged Sexual Abuse of Students On January 12th, 74-year-old James Francis Rapp’s life took a turn for the worse. The former Jackson Lumen Christi High School priest, who during his time at the high school had served as a maintenance man, wrestling coach and a teacher, was charged with 13 criminal […]

Two Facing Animal Cruelty Charges After Videos Posted on Youtube Animal cruelty, like child abuse, can be a very volatile subject that elicits very strong emotional reactions in people. So it is likely that the two men from northern Michigan who are accused of videotaping the mauling death of a coyote and posting it online […]

State Supreme Court To Rule on Three Medical Marijuana Cases Last week, justices from the state Supreme Court listened to oral arguments from three medical marijuana cases that started out in Oakland County. The three cases were People v. Hartwick, People v. Tuttle, and People v. Mazur.