Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

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 […]

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In an unpublished decision, the Michigan Court of Appeals has overturned a Tuscola County defendant’s drug convictions.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 […]