by Michael D. Hills | Oct 1, 2014 | Michigan Law, Uncategorized
This blog will discuss suggestive pre-trial identification. Photographic identification procedures can violate a defendant’s due process rights if they are so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a substantial likelihood of misidentification. Police may...
by Michael D. Hills | Oct 8, 2014 | Michigan Law
This blog will discuss Personal Protection Orders (PPOs) in the state of Michigan. Primarily, this blog will review when a trial court must issue a PPO. A trial court must issue a PPO if it finds there is reasonable cause to believe the individual to be restrained...
by Michael D. Hills | Oct 15, 2014 | Michigan Law
This blog will discuss the consequences of attending a dogfight in the state of Michigan. A person violates the law against dogfights if he or she (1) is present at a dogfighting exhibition and (2) knows that the dogfighting exhibition is taking place. A recent...
by Michael D. Hills | Oct 22, 2014 | Michigan Law
This blog will discuss a trial judge giving proper jury instructions. To begin, jury instructions are the set of legal rules a judge reads to a jury for the jurors to follow when deciding a case. Regarding jury instructions, the instructions “must include all...
by Michael D. Hills | Oct 29, 2014 | Constitution, Sex Crime
Sometimes child witnesses are given special accommodations in a trial and other criminal proceedings. It is important to remember that in a criminal case, you have a right to confront the witnesses against you pursuant to the Michigan and United States...
