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State Senator Virgil Smith has taken on what may seem like an insurmountable task in bringing the issue of the death penalty for cop killers to the Senate floor. But according to Smith, he promised one of his constituents that he wouldn’t let 2015 pass without having addressed the issue.

Logan’s Law Would Mandate Animal Abuser Registry On January 18th, Senate leaders chose not to place the bi-partisan bill package entitled “Logan’s Law” on the Michigan Senate agenda, thereby not allowing the House bill to be put to the vote. But the sponsors of Logan’s Law, Rep. Paul Muxlow and Rep. Harvey Santana, have not given […]

State Veteran Courts Serve the Needs of Michigan Vets Imagine this, if you will….. You are a young man or woman, raised in Michigan, who chooses to join the armed forces after high school. Perhaps because you are patriotic. Perhaps because it is what your father, and his father before him, did. Perhaps you just […]

Bay County Man Gets 210 Days Chad A. Monroe was very frustrated when his girlfriend of three years broke up with him last year, and he made sure she knew it by harassing her with an almost endless slew of vengeful texts and Facebook messages, posting naked pictures of her online, and creating false “sex-for-hire” […]

There is nothing new about this fact, and yet it continues to surprise people when it shows up in news headlines in one form or another: It is entirely possible to be both a politician and a criminal at the same time. And that is certainly the case for newly inaugurated Newaygo County commissioner, 64-year-old […]

Just a couple of weeks ago we wrote on the subject of Michigan’s new DNA laws, in which the state’s Supreme Court has ruled that anyone arrested for a serious crime can be swabbed for DNA samples by law enforcement, even if they are not yet charged with a crime. But the mere subject of […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.