Category Archives: Dismiss Criminal Charges

  Profiling is a complex subject, and we’re not talking about criminal profiling here. Criminal profiling is where a professional profiler tries to narrow down who police are looking for (the suspect) by analyzing a crime and trying to figure out the type of person who committed it. We’re talking about police profiling, which is […]

  When we talk about the cloud these days, we’re talking about online space used to store digital data. Or weather. Or whatever. But when the government talks about CLOUD, they’re talking about the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, which is a completely different thing!   So what is CLOUD exactly? Oh, just […]

  Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this discussion on arrest warrants in Michigan. In the previous article we discussed the types of warrants that exist here in Michigan, and what it means when there’s a warrant out for your arrest. If you’re just joining us now we recommend you take a […]

Chances are, you’ve heard about the Larry Nassar case in Ingham County and his second case in Eaton County. Maybe you also heard about his federal kiddie porn conviction. In fact, it would be hard to miss it, with the related MSU scandal, the new legislation inspired by Nassar’s charges, and the sensational sentencing hearing […]

  Imagine this scenario: An abused woman spends years with an abusive husband or boyfriend. He hurts her on a regular basis. She’s too afraid to call the cops because he’s threatened to harm their toddler son if she reaches out for help. And then one day it happens. They fight, she tries to call […]

  Being accused of sexual assault has serious consequences, even before the trial and possible sentence is passed. In the case of the three former Spartan football players accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a party, they have been kicked off the football team, and also dismissed from the university. Even if the charges […]

Television court dramas and John Grisham novels are full of instances where murder charges and other very serious accusations, are thrown out of court on technicalities. But that happens considerably less often in the real world. When it does happen, it’s a big deal. A big deal for the prosecutor’s office, for the defense attorney […]

Armed Robbery of Hotel Guests Charges Dismissed Imagine showing up for the continuation of your preliminary examination for armed robbery, and instead of a long litany of the things you’ve done wrong, the Prosecutor asks the judge to dismiss the case! Sounds impossible? Jesse R. Martinez probably thought so too, until it happened to him […]

A good rule to live by is: real life is not like the movies! In films and popular TV shows, people involved in criminal enterprises often appear to lead glamorous and interesting lives and get away with all manner of illegal shenanigans without ever getting caught. In real life, people involved in criminal enterprises often […]

Last week, a Macomb County Circuit judge tossed out a bioterrorism charge held against an HIV-positive man accused of biting someone in an attempt to spread the deadly virus. Although the state passed a bioterrorism charge in the wake of the 1998 Oklahoma City bombing and an anthrax scare, Daniel Allen’s Michigan criminal defense attorney successfully argued in court that the legislation was misapplied in this case.