Tag Archives: Criminal Defense Attorneys in Michigan

  Welcome back and thanks for joining us here for this discussion about the many ways cops can lie to you during an investigation. As we’ve explained in the previous article, the police are allowed to lie to you if they suspect you’re guilty of a crime, and their lies are likely to get them […]

  There has been a distinct rise in the number of wrongfully convicted people released from Michigan prisons in recent years. Between the efforts of U of M’s Innocence Clinic, WMU’s Cooley Law School Innocence Project, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, great strides have been made towards righting the wrongs of the […]

  If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of a taser you know how totally horrible it feels! Every muscle in your body locks up, and you lose control of your ability to move. It’s well…. simply shocking. Some people have described it as feeling like you’re being hit by lightning. However, as you […]

  For the person being arrested, it’s a scary process. For the person doing the arresting, it’s a procedure that has to follow certain protocols in order to be legal, which makes it stressful. If you’ve been arrested, and you think the arresting officer screwed something up, or violated your rights in some way, you […]

U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell and Fred Upton of Michigan are pushing for bipartisan ‘red flag’ legislation in Congress. The laws, if passed, would allow state and local law enforcement officers to take guns from people considered “potentially dangerous” without a warrant. The legislation was introduced to the U.S. House with Representatives Susan Brooks of Indiana, […]

  That may seem like strange question to ask. In fact, many of you might never even have stopped to consider it before (and why should you have?) After all, it isn’t every day that most people in Michigan drive rental cars. And it’s not often that the average rental car driver encounters the police […]

  Ask anyone what ‘armed robbery‘ is, and they’ll tell you it means robbing a store or business (like a bank) with a gun. They may go on to explain that it doesn’t have to be a gun, the robber could use a knife, or some other weapon to threaten the clerk.   Perhaps an […]

  Welcome back, and thanks for joining us here at The Kronzek Firm for our continuing discussion on consumer DNA testing. As we shared with you in the previous article, the man believed to be the Golden State Killer was apprehended recently as a result of a DNA test done by a distant relative of […]

  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 […]

  Exercising your right to go to trial instead of simply accepting whatever plea bargain is offered is a vital part of the American judicial system. And despite the fact that trials cost the state considerably more money than a plea hearing and then a sentencing hearing, and takes far more time, it is still […]