Whether you have been wrongly convicted of a sex or drug crime, robbery, or any serious criminal offense, it does not always mean that it is the end of the road. Additionally, there are times when the sentence given an individual by a judge is harsher than usual and you…
On Tuesday July 16, employees of Dearborn Family Dollar store arrived at work to find that something horrible had occurred. One employee was found inside the store, apparently dead from gunshot wounds. While 20-year-old Joe Orlando was deceased, his 20-year-old coworker, Brenna K. Machus, seemed to be missing. According to…
In January, we reported about a Lima Township man who had embezzlement charges against him dismissed, and new charges filed against him in connection with funneling money from A2 Auto Glass. Now, Oral and Janice Molden are scheduled to go on trial for embezzling roughly $250,000 from the glass company…
On April 30 of 2012, a two-year-old toddler died, the death called “suspicious” by Lansing police. Brandon Kemp was allegedly abused because of issues his mother and her boyfriend, 26-year-old Marcus Hill, were having with potty training the toddler. Now, Hill has been sentenced to life in prison without parole…
18-year-old Ronald Lamont Williams Jr. of Benton Harbor was recently sentenced to 135 months to 35 years in prison for his role in an April 2012 triple shooting in Oshtemo Township. According to a news article at Mlive.com, Judge Pamela L. Lightvoet, who sentenced Williams, said that the downward departure…
Two men, Darell Wayne Boyd and Christopher Lee Warren, are accused of being among a quintet of alleged armed robbers who invaded a home in Lowell Township in May of 2012, ransacking the home after tying up the residents and pistol whipping one of them, according to a news article…
Two Detroit teens will face federal sentences for their alleged involvement in robbing two cell phone stores over the past year. 18-year-old Jesse Dismukes and 19-year-old David Lamont Holland now each face a mandatory minimum of 32 years behind bars for the robberies. A news article at Mlive.com says that…
On Friday July 12, marijuana charges against 42-year-old Myron T. Williams were dropped. Now Williams has been charged with murder by the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office in connection with the strangling death of a 35-year-old woman. Following the dismissal of the marijuana charges on Friday, Williams was held in custody…
As experienced Michigan criminal defense attorneys know, a criminal charge does not always lead to a conviction and the resulting criminal penalties. In February of this year, 29-year-old Joslin Patrick McEwen was charged with first-degree felony home invasion in connection with an incident that occurred in Cedar Springs in the…
On Saturday July 6, a 32-year-old Harbor Springs man was arrested after being pulled over by a Leelanau County deputy. He was charged with OWI with High BAC after a Datamaster test revealed a blood alcohol content of .22%, nearly three times Michigan’s legal limit of .08. At approximately 5:00…
