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Michigan Dept. of State Police v. Sitz, 496 U.S. 444 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the constitutionality of police sobriety checkpoints. The Court held 6-3 that these checkpoints met the Fourth Amendment standard of "reasonable search and seizure." However, upon remand to the Michigan Supreme Court, that court held ...
This list of U.S. states by Alford plea usage documents usage of the form of guilty plea known as the Alford plea in each of the U.S. states in the United States. An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine [4] [5] [6]) in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and ...
According to Gross, "these cases merely point to a much larger number of tragedies that we do not know about." [5] The registry and report includes cases of defendants convicted of crimes that never occurred, cases involving false confessions, and cases involving innocent defendants who pleaded guilty. The new report reveals many more ...
The Michigan Supreme Court has designated the Berrien County Courts as a consolidation site for the merger of the District Court, Probate Court and Circuit Court into a single Trial Court. [ 13 ] The 6th District Court, which consisted of the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph was merged into the 5th District Court in the 1970s to form a ...
In many jurisdictions, the court in which a DWI case is heard depends on the law enforcement agency that cited the individual and the location of the alleged violation. Cases often begin in a lower court, such as a justice or municipal court. Cases that involves more serious charges or appeals may be moved to a higher trial court. [15] [16]
A man who went viral after driving during a virtual court proceeding over his suspended license never even had one to begin with — from any state, ever, a Michigan judge said at a hearing Wednesday.
Tiffany Haddish has pleaded not guilty one week after being charged in her Los Angeles DUI case.. The defense counsel entered a not guilty plea on behalf of Haddish, 44, during an arrangement on ...
To enter the deferred sentence program, a plea of guilt must be made. Even though successful completion of a deferred sentence results in a dismissal of charges and guilty plea withdrawal, most states still consider it to be a conviction since a plea of guilt was entered and the defendant was considered "convicted" for the duration of the program.