Would-be underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has pleaded guilty a day after prosecutors gave opening statements in his Detroit federal trial for attempted murder.
With as much as $100 million in unpaid filing fees at issue, another Texas county is pondering possible litigation against those responsible for an electronic system that circumvented the traditional…
In a highly unusual trial development, a Michigan defense attorney is personally facing a potential criminal contempt charge at the same time that he attempts to defend his client in…
Lawyer Erik Chappell dialed 911 on Tuesday in a frantic call after his Volvo station wagon exploded in an apparent bombing, injuring himself and his two sons.
A Michigan teen claims in a lawsuit that police in Livonia forced him to take an alcohol breath test at a school picnic in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
A Michigan judge overseeing the murder retrial of a comic store owner expressed outrage on Wednesday after a juror claimed her law firm employer planned to fire her because of…
A book written by the former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, apparently will have to be a best-seller before he sees any substantial profit from writing it.
A veteran Michigan criminal defense lawyer is awaiting a decision on how he will be penalized following a legal ethics ruling that found he had violated a fundamental principle of…
It wasn’t any one thing. But a series of attorney discipline and ethics issues, over a period of decades, as well as a Michigan lawyer’s bad attitude persuaded the state…
Corrected: A Michigan judge should be disqualified from hearing drunken driving cases because of her tough DUI sentences, according to a motion filed this week.
A Detroit judge is set to decide next week whether an escrow account he created to capture proceeds from the sale of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s new autobiography is legal.
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