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Aug 29, 2026

Charged With a Crime While on Vacation in Michigan? Out-of-State Defendants and Wayne County Courts

Michigan draws visitors all summer — lake country, Detroit sporting events, festivals, the Dream Cruise, family visits over holiday weekends. A meaningful number of them go home with a pending Michigan criminal case. Being charged in a state you do...

Aug 28, 2026

Labor Day Weekend Is Next Week: Michigan's Most Dangerous Driving Weekend

Labor Day weekend runs September 4 through 7 this year, and it is consistently among the most heavily enforced stretches on Michigan roads. It is the last long weekend of summer, the last cottage trip, the last boat weekend, and...

Aug 27, 2026

What Happens at Sentencing in Michigan: Guidelines, Allocution, and What Actually Moves a Judge

By the time a case reaches sentencing, most people assume the outcome is already decided. It is not. Michigan sentencing involves real discretion, real advocacy, and a set of procedural rights that are routinely underused. Here is what actually happens...

Aug 26, 2026

Michigan Restitution: How Courts Calculate What You Owe and How to Fight It

Of everything a Michigan criminal sentence contains, restitution is the part that lasts longest and gets contested least. Jail ends. Probation ends. Restitution becomes a civil judgment that survives both, and in most circumstances it survives bankruptcy too. It is...

Aug 25, 2026

Charged With Embezzlement in Michigan? MCL 750.174 and Workplace Theft

Embezzlement charges arrive differently from most criminal cases. There is no arrest at the scene, no traffic stop, no 911 call. There is an internal audit, a meeting with HR, a suspension, and then weeks or months of silence before...

Aug 24, 2026

Michigan Sobriety Court: How Repeat OWI Offenders Get Their License Back

For someone facing a second or third OWI in Michigan, the problem is rarely the jail time. It is the license. Revocation is indefinite, restoration requires a contested hearing, and in the meantime a person still has to get to...

Aug 22, 2026

Sexting, Nudes, and Michigan Law: What Parents of Teenagers Need to Understand Before School Starts

This is the conversation parents least want to have and most need to have before school starts. Michigan law on sexual images of minors was written to prosecute adults who exploit children. It applies, on its face, to teenagers who...

Aug 21, 2026

Michigan Juvenile Court: What Happens When Your Child Is Charged Under 18

School starts in under two weeks. For families whose child picked up a charge over the summer — or who are about to navigate a school year where something goes wrong — the juvenile system operates on entirely different rules...

Aug 20, 2026

Charged With Furnishing Alcohol to a Minor in Michigan? MCL 436.1701 Explained

Late August brings graduation-adjacent send-off parties, last-weekend-of-summer gatherings, and the first round of back-to-school parties. Parents host them, and a meaningful number of those parents have no idea what Michigan law says about what happens in their basement. Here is...

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