Our office represents many students at Hope College, Grand Valley State University, Muskegon Community College, Grand Rapids Community College and other surrounding higher educational institutions and community colleges. If you find yourself charged with a college...
In May of 2012, an Oakland county Trial Court heard a case where a police officer pulled over and eventually arrested an individual for possession of Heroin less than 25 grams. The court suppressed ALL the evidence in the case when the police officer testified that...
In January of 2012, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled in People v. Tavernier and followed the United States Supreme Courts ruling in Arizona v. Gant that a search of the passenger compartment after an arrest is reasonable, only if the arrestee is within reaching...
The United States Supreme Court, in January of 2012, ruled in United States v. Jones that the government’s physical intrusion of attaching and monitoring a GPS unit was a search and was obtained without a proper warrant. The lower court had ruled that any data...
In April of 2012, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled in People v. Moreno that the common law principle that allows a person to resist an unlawful arrest still applies in Michigan. Unbelievably, the Michigan Court of Appeals had earlier ruled that you could NOT resist...