Legal Question in Criminal Law in Michigan

Re: Family Issues

Your mother and sister should retain an aggressive attorney to fight for them.

For more information, go to:

www.AggressiveCriminalDefense.com

Re: Family Issues

Do we really have all the pertinent facts? What inspired the "two women" to come to a house and attack another woman with a "car club" ... and the "two women with the car club" were not the ones who got charged? SOMEthing(s) happened leading up to that! Did your sister and/or mother do something earlier to give the "two women" the right to act in lawful self-defense???

If nothing happened earlier, and if the car-club-wielding women should be cahrged with anything, it could range from something as minimal as assault and batter (misdemeanor) to malicious destruction of property (misdemeanor or felony depending on the amount of damage) to Home Invasion (felony).

Re: Family Issues

Your family needs attorneys who will fight the case both in court and out. If the prosecution is leaking information then that has to be stopped. Each defendant deserves her own lawyer. If one of those lawyers has previous experience handling media cases that would be great.

You also need attorneys who understand how to use the Federal civil rights act, both to protect your family and also to attack the other side in the criminal case.

If you are looking for good lawyers you can usually find them by looking for lawyers who are active members of the Michigan Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. If they are also members of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers too, that is further proof of their committment to aggressive professional defense.

I would look for people who have been invited to lecture to these organizations or who write articles for their publications.

Finally look for lawyers who are well rated by Martindale-Hubbel you are looking for lawyers with at least a BV rating. (AV is the highest.)

Good luck.

Re: Family Issues

"They attacked my mother, and sister with weapons and my mother then in self defense got a knife and stabbed one of the ladies. "

My initial response was "ummhmm."

But, years ago, I consulted on a case where the victim was stabbed over 20 times and yet, self-defense was found, so it's not entirely unlikely.

Instead of jumping up and down and trying to sue everyone, you need to hire a GOOD lawyer to make the arguments for you in court and with the prosecutor, and see what happens.

Expect to pay, but more importantly, make sure your attorney has a *really good* reputation. Your expert (and you'll probably need at least one) will also need to testify, so, again, expect to pay.

Call around before hiring someone and read old issues of the newspaper for cases in which someone in your area was actually acquitted on the basis of self-defense.

Focus on that first, worry about suing people later.