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Genesee County Deputy Caught With Cocaine Last year in early July, Amy R. Gatica, a Genesee County Sheriff’s deputy, was accused of smuggling cocaine and prescription drugs into the jail where she worked, and giving them to an inmate she knew. Gatica was arrested and her Grand Blanc Township home and vehicle were searched and […]

Heroin, Crack Cocaine and Prescription Pills Found in Car On Tuesday, April 22nd, a tip led police to seek out a drug transaction in Ann Arbor, MI. What transpired was far more extensive and unexpected. After a brief police chase, resulting in a car crash in the middle of a busy intersection, 3 people were […]

On February 22nd, just after midnight in the city of Saline, MI, Samantha Grigg was arrested for murder. She and two other teenagers, 18 year old Tyrel Bredernitz and 16 year old Brendan Heim, were charged with the murder of 19 year old Michigan State University student Dustyn Frolka. Frolka’s body was found partially-clothed and […]

A squatter is defined as: “a person who settles on land or occupies property without title, right, or payment of rent.” In a case that was recently decided by the Michigan Court of Appeals, a Detroit area man met that definition. He owned a home, but he was thrown out of the home after Hamtramck, […]

Every drug defense lawyer was happy to hear about the U.S. District Judge who tossed a marijuana case against a couple who was arrested after an officer “smelled” the drug coming from their home. Using the testimony of a smell expert, the defense successfully argued that there was no way Officer Kyle Young could have smelled the drugs.

Four Michigan residents were arrested after postal workers tipped off police that marijuana was being delivered to a Lansing home through the mail.

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.

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.

Even though Michigan voters legalized medicinal marijuana in 2008, the public and courts still debate of how to apply it.

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?