Personal Protection Order, Jury?

Unfortunately, Michigan law provides for a determination by the judge. The Respondent (person responding to PPO petition) has various procedural...

In AZ, is it legal for a city to enact a ordinance that is against state statues, against he constitution.

Of course, if a city ordinance violates the federal or state constitution or laws, it should be ruled to be invalid, upon legal challenge. The...

Normally, in Michigan a person may record the activities of anyone in public, whether they like it or not. Officers like to assert that they have...

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Recorded phonecalls

Under Michigan law, any participant to a conversation may record it without notice to the other participants. It is a crime to record a...

Breach of contract alone is not a crime. However, a person can breach a contract in such a way that that it is a crime. To establish a crime,...

Do Judges usually review every motion filed in a case and reconnect it with facts of previous motions???

A judge who has been in office only a few years has already had tens of thousands of cases before her, and will not have a good memory of most of...

The "lie detector" (polygraph) test is not scientifically reliable and normally is not admitted in court. To win on entrapment on the new case,...

Why would the reporting police officer call me to ask if I'll be showing up for court (it's a DV trial against my husband)

It is the duty of the officer to ensure that the necessary witnesses show up for court. If you do not show up, the prosecutor has no case, and it...

Does it constitute prosecutorial misconduct if the A.D.A. presuades a witness to testify by over looking the 2 crimes said witne

The police and/or prosecutors interview witnesses, and normally have no personal knowledge of whether the witnesses are being truthful or not,...

The legality of a search is a complex legal question, that in some cases may involve questions as to which version of facts to believe, yours, or...