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Recent bills approved by the Michigan Senate would adjust the requirements for including younger people convicted of sexual crimes, and therefore required to register on the state Sex Offender Registry. As sex offenses can change one’s life permanently, the changes hope to provide an opportunity for teenage sex offenders to successfully rehabilitate and integrate themselves back into society.

In 2000, Mark Craighead was convicted of murdering his closest friend, and sentenced to serve seven years behind bars as a result. However, new information discovered by University of Michigan law students shows that Craighead was innocent, and working the night the murder occurred.

Every sex crime lawyer knows all too well: regardless of where it occurs, guilty pleas or convictions for sex crimes will have a significant impact on the defendant’s life. In Michigan, the Sex Offender Registration Act requires these individuals to submit personal information to a large public database called the Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry. In short, this is an extensive list of Michigan residents who have pled guilty to—or have been convicted of—certain crimes that are sexual in nature.

Prosecutors nationwide serve as the government’s representation in cases against a defendant accused of committing a crime. However, in many states (including Michigan), laws mandate that the accused could be required to pay the costs of their own prosecution, in addition to excessive fines and fees already associated with their crime.

After the tragic Arizona shootings last week, Americans have reopened the seemingly ever present debate over gun laws in the United States; how much control is too much?

Police recently arrested a woman at Detroit Metro Airport after Customs agents discovered that she had transported over two pounds of Heroin in her body from Europe to the United States.

A Michigan man was recently charged with a felony crime after reading his wife’s emails without permission. As criminal charges are rarely brought into divorce proceedings, it leaves Michigan residents to wonder: what other forms of surveillance are illegal?

Lawmakers across the country have enacted computer-related legislation in efforts to keep up with rapid advances in technology. However, a recent case involving a Michigan man facing trial for reading his wife’s emails asks a new question: how does computer-related privacy laws apply to domestic cases?

As more Michigan residents are using analogue or designer drugs to achieve a “high” without legal consequences, state and federal lawmakers are hard at work to outlaw synthetic narcotics.

In mid-October, Michigan Police are launching a statewide sweep searching for convicted sex offenders who have neglected to comply with the requirements of the Sex Offender Registry.