Tag Archives: Michigan Criminal Defense Attorneys

The University of Michigan has made the news quite a lot recently due to the destructive hotel room activities of several fraternities and sororities earlier this year. And now it’s happening again, with multiple arrests following a Board of Regents meeting that attracted some unwanted attention from angry protesters.

Mother begs Judge, “Please keep my son in jail!” You have only to watch any one of the many gangster and mafia shows on TV in the last few years to realize just how pervasive this myth has become in your culture. Gangsters are cool. Breaking the law makes you “cool”, and desirable. This is […]

Stripper and Family Accused of Blackmail As Oscar Wilde claimed, “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” And that was certainly the case here, where a recent series of events sounded suspiciously like a portion of the story line in the first episode of Fox Network’s Backstrom “Dragon Slayer”, in which a stripper […]

“Confidence in public safety is of utmost importance,” said Attorney General Bill Schuette in a recent press release, “As Attorney General, I have a responsibility to enforce the law and ensure public integrity. Taxpayers deserve honesty and accountability from those who work on their behalf.”

33-year-old Matthew Lawrence Krueger is in a lot of trouble, and not just in one place either. Krueger is apparently facing a number of arson related charges in Oceana County in addition to a false threat of terrorism charge from Ottawa County. Apparently both sets of criminal activity took place on the same night in […]

Choosing the RIGHT Michigan Defense Attorney for YOU! We’ve discussed how to determine whether or not you need an attorney, and whether or not you are facing state or federal charges, in the previous segment. Next we are going to be looking at things like a Michigan Defense attorney’s educational background, research, and qualities.

Animal Cruelty Legislation Delayed Current Michigan law says that anyone convicted of mutilating or killing an animal can be sentenced to prison for up to four years.  There is a current Senate bill aimed at increasing penalties and reclassifying aspects of the law.  However, voting on the bill has been delayed.

Will a Naked Stroll in the Snow Result in Criminal Charges? It’s not every day that you see a naked man in a cowboy hat on the side of the highway in January. Although if you’re a police officer, you may see this sort of thing more often than most. As Doreen Olko, Chief of […]

It happens in every profession and every walk of life – one person’s poor choices and ill-thought-out actions make everyone around them look bad. (After all, we’re lawyers – we’ve heard ALL the bad lawyer jokes!) But as one former Detroit cop is learning in the wake of a sentence for racketeering charges, this is […]

Two Facing Animal Cruelty Charges After Videos Posted on Youtube Animal cruelty, like child abuse, can be a very volatile subject that elicits very strong emotional reactions in people. So it is likely that the two men from northern Michigan who are accused of videotaping the mauling death of a coyote and posting it online […]