Recent content by Atty Stu

I am an appellate lawyer and really don't have much of a stick in this fight. When a case comes to me, that race was run. The problem I see with the clause is that it requires the charges to be dropped or for you to get an acquittal. When a prosecutor doubts their case, they often come with a...

Have they standardized the design of the id card itself? E.g. does a Marquette County CPL and a Wayne County one now look the same? Updated: Never mind. I found a sample Alger County one at images.google.com and it looks the same as my Wayne County one (except for the Wayne County seal in...

It is not that easy. There is a ton of authority that says that pardons are not entitled to full faith and credit. Consider this quote: The courts that have considered this issue are united on certain principles. First, it is agreed that the constitutional full faith and credit clause, Art...

It is not illegal for the police to offer. That is television law. What they can't do is create a set of circumstances that would make your ordinary law abiding citizen (without criminal predisposition in MIch, but not elsewhere) feel pressured to commit a crime. In Kalamazoo, decoy cops...

PS: HEre is a link to the 2010 version of the law: Link Removed

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that an expunged conviction is not a "conviction" for purposes of the CPL statute. Link Removed A person with a post-November 2005 CPL has been certified to have federal firearm rights as well. The Link Removed has said so i writing.

You are legally entitled to a CCW, but that doesn't mean that your local CCW Board will like it. The case you want to read is Carr v Midland County, 259 Mich App 420, 674 NW2d 709 (2003) Here is the Google link: Link Removed I would check the "no" box as to whether you were convicted of a...