Sunday evening, September 9th, is when one West Bloomfield police officer lost his life after responding to a “shots fired” call at a residence in the 4000 block of Forest Edge Lane in West Bloomfield Township. 39-year-old Patrick O’Rourke was met by gunfire at approximately 10 p.m. After being taken…
A Van Buren Township man, Michael VanDerLinden, died in a fiery crash in Indiana on August 16th. When police went to his residence in an attempt to notify his family, they were found dead. VanDerLinden was involved in a car crash after he entered Interstate 94 in northwestern Indiana and…
On Wednesday evening, July 25th, New Galilee Baptist Church in Detroit was the site of an expungement and federal pardon seminar hosted by Third District Court Judge Deborah Thomas and others. The seminar was designed to help the thousands of convicted felons in the Detroit area with having their records…
A shooting that occurred on Friday evening, July 13th, left two sisters dead and their mother wounded. Now, 38-year-old Ohio resident Thomas Fritz faces charges of assault and murder once he is apprehended. The shooting took place in Blissfield in southeast Michigan. Fritz allegedly shot his ex-girlfriend, her sister and…
A recent 6th Circuit Court of Appeals case evaluated what an “acquittal” means for purposes of double jeopardy. Double jeopardy is the legal concept that means you can’t be tried twice on the same charges. This means a prosecutor is forbidden from being a second lawsuit against a defendant after…