Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

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.

44-year-old Michael Darnell Williams, a resident of Saginaw with a long history of mental illness, has been charged with attempted murder. Police say Williams stabbed four people on an Amtrak train bound for Port Huron, but according to Williams, he was just fighting demons.

Hours after his story went public, Wally Kowalski was arrested. He was awakened in the early morning and taken from his home in handcuffs by the Michigan State Police. He then spent the rest of the night in a freezing cell, with no blanket or pillow.

Three teenagers from Flint, who were all charged as adults, are looking at potential decades in prison after pleading guilty to armed robbery and home invasion charges. 18-year-old Robert A. Murphy III and his younger brother, 16-year-old Roshawn R. Murphy, along with 18-year-old Courtney D. Hall were sentenced in the Genesee Circuit Court by Judge […]