School’s almost out! Prom is just around the corner, and summer is stretched before you like a veritable buffet of delights. And you want to enjoy it, not spend it in jail, or doing required community service, or without the freedom of a driver’s license. The best way to avoid this, of course, is to avoid getting arrested on DUI charges. Read more ›
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Muskegon Police Drunk Driving Scandal
Stories about police officers being arrested for crimes are often considered to be scandalous simply because the accused is a cop. But in this particular instance the ensuing scandal includes more than just the arrested officer. According to the press release put out by the Muskegon County Sheriff’s Office, the events took place as follows: Read more ›
Michigan DUI Crackdown a Success
Police Share Results
For the person who drives home after a few too many beers at the bar, “success” is making it home without getting pulled over, and without wreaking any havoc along the way. But for the myriad police departments across the state, “success” looks a little different. Read more ›
Judge J. Cedric Simpson Accused of Acting Improperly
Judges Judging Judges:Â Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission
Most judges judge the actions and choices of civilians. Every now and again one of them will be required to judge an attorney or a police officer – a member of the law enforcement community. But it is rare that one judge gets to judge another, at least in an official capacity.
The Judicial Tenure Commission’s Executive Director Paul J. Fisher announced that the commission believes that Washtenaw County district court Judge J. Cedric Simpson acted improperly on all counts. The evidence was reviewed by retired Ingham County Judge Peter Houk, who agreed with the commission’s findings. Read more ›
Murder Charge for Pontiac Drunk Driver
Child’s Death Results in Murder Charge
Very few people, when having a few drinks before they drive off into the sunset, think about the possible consequences of their choices. 24-year-old Ieshia Barnes from Pontiac certainly didn’t. After all, if she had known that those drinks would end up costing a child’s life and earn her a murder charge in exchange, chances are, she wouldn’t have had them. Read more ›
DUI pardons: a how to guide for beginners
There was much public uproar, fed by a scandalized media, after it was discovered that in December of last year, Governor Snyder extended a rare DUI pardon. The beneficiary of this rather unusual generosity was none other than Alan Gocha Jr., a politically connected defense attorney from Oakland County. But now another attorney has decided to jump on the bandwagon by creating the state’s first ever “how to guide” for getting a DUI pardoned by the governor. Read more ›
No Contest Plea for DUI Causing Death
In the Kent County Circuit Court, Michelle Carmelita Lerma appeared recently before Judge Mark Trusock where she pled no contest to a single count of operating while intoxicated causing death. In return, the prosecution agreed to drop a single charge of reckless driving causing death.
The accident that put her in court that day for a DUI causing death was devastating, putting her in a wheelchair while she recovered, and taking an unsuspecting man’s life. Read more ›
Hung Over Driving – Is It Really Any Better Than Drunk Driving?
Hung Over Driving Could Still be Dangerous
Most people know that having a few drinks (or a few too many) and then driving themselves home from the bar might not be their smartest choice. But the majority of those same people would think nothing of getting up the next morning and driving off to work, having taken a few aspirin for the headache.
But recent studies are showing that this may actually be a pretty bad idea. In one of the studies, researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and the University of the West of England in the U.K. put study participants through a series of driving tests that mimicked highway driving. As part of the study, all of the participants had consumed about 10 drinks each the night before. Read more ›
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