Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

Solving murders is very hard. But solving a murder that is old enough to be considered a “cold case” is even harder. So when it does happen, officials are usually overjoyed to bring long-denied justice to victims and families who have waited, sometimes decades, for answers. But in the case of 36-year-old Jason Ryan of […]

In a day and age when vaccinations are so commonplace, more than three people dying of the same relatively rare disease can trigger public outcry and the fear of epidemic. In this instance, it has also led to very serious criminal charges, including federal murder.

Coopersville Man Suspected of Killing Mother Michael David Roersma, the 50-year-old Coopersville resident who reported his mother missing in September, has now been charged with open murder in her death.  On top of killing her, he allegedly attempted to dispose of her body by dumping it in the Grand River.

Last week, an important change in drug policy slipped under the radar. Inside a spending measure over 1,600 pages long is a provision to end the federal ban on medical marijuana. This is the first time that Congress has supported this type of change.

Reasonable Mistake of Law Still Gives Reasonable Suspicion This week, in an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment is not violated when a police officer makes a traffic stop based on a reasonable but mistaken understanding that the driver is breaking a traffic law. In Heien v. North Carolina, the […]

New legislation approved recently by Michigan’s predominantly Republican Senate, has changed the law regarding certain aspects of abortion, namely the coerced variety. Bill-backers are saying this a greater problem than many people realize.

The best birthdays tend to include cake and messy parties and sometimes, depending on your idea of excitement, oddly shaped balloon animals. The worst ones, it seems, are often marked by gifts of socks and a definitive lack of cake. But David Seifert has set a whole new standard for “worst birthday ever”, by spending […]

Hazing. Just the mention of the word evokes a host of responses, and very few of them are positive. Horror stories abound of hazings gone wrong, victims abused and humiliated and even in certain tragic instances, killed. It is not a nice practice, and in almost every state in the U.S., also illegal. Here in […]

The criminal justice process is turning into a very long and rather bumpy journey for Lorenzo D. Relerford Jr., the 30-year-old Flint man accused of murdering Jeanne Hank, the sister of a Genesee County sheriff deputy.

On January 6th, at 9 am, a number of angry and grieving people will gather in the Wayne County Circuit Court, where Judge Ulysses Boykin will sentence 23-year-old Darnell Cheatham for crimes of torture, murder, arson, child abuse, and mutilation of a dead body.