DataMaster and Breath Test Instrument Operators in OWI Cases
Jun 07, 2013
There are administrative rules governing evidential breath test instruments that are used in drunk driving OWI cases. Any officer administering such a test must be properly trained and such instrument ...
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Restoring Your Firearm Rights After Being Convicted of a Felony
Jun 01, 2013
If you have been convicted of a felony in Michigan, you automatically lose your right to possess, use, transport, sell, purchase, carry, ship, receive, or distribute a firearm under MCL 750.224f. You ...
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Felon in Possession of a Firearm
Jun 01, 2013
If you have been convicted of a felony in Michigan, you will lose your right to use, possess, transport, sell, purchase, carry, ship, receive, or distribute a firearm under MCL 740.224f. You can event...
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DUI's effect on Commercial Driver's Licenses
Jun 01, 2013
Ordinarily a plea to a reduced charge of Operating While Visibly Impaired (Impaired Driving) or the non-alcohol related offense of Reckless Driving is acceptable to most people charged with OWI. Howeve...
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Medical Marijuana and DUI: Court Rules Prosecutors Must Prove Drivers "Under the Influence"
May 23, 2013
The conflict between Michigan's Medical Marijuana Act (MMMA)[1] and the OWI statute has now been settled. On Tuesday the Michigan Supreme Court announced that the MMMA trumps the OWI statute[2] thus al...
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Hardship Driver's License Appeal: Getting Your License Suspension or Revocation Lifted
May 20, 2013
If your driving privileges have been suspended or revoked, you may be able to seek and get relief in the circuit court. You will have to convince the court that the revocation or suspension of your lic...
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Retail Fraud AKA Shoplifting
May 20, 2013
As a Michigan criminal defense attorney I have represented clients charged with retail fraud, or shoplifting, in the cities of Lansing, East Lansing, Mason, Haslett, Okemos, Holt, Charlotte, Bath, St. ...
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Resisting & Obstructing
May 20, 2013
Under MCL 750.81d(1),a person can be guilty of this offense by: assaulting, battering, wounding, resisting, obstructing, opposing, or endangering a person who the individual knows or has reason to know...
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Michigan OWI: “Operating” a Motor Vehicle Defined
May 20, 2013
One of the elements of an OWI or drunk operating offense, is that the person had to be operating a motor vehicle. Sounds simple enough, but case law trail on what constitutes operating says otherwise...
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Fleeing & Eluding
May 20, 2013
Fleeing and Eluding is a criminal offense where a driver of a car fails to obey a visual or audible signal to pull over by the police in lawful performance of his duties. This is a very serious charge...
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