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  • Recent Appeals Court Ruling Affects Another Abuse Case

    A decision handed down in the Michigan Court of Appeals recently may have ripple effects on other cases currently pending, as well as in the future. The Court of Appeals decided that a fetus is not legally a baby, and therefore is not covered under Michigan’s description of “child” in the legal definition of child…

  • Is It Constitutional For Caseworkers To Lie In Court?

    One of the issues we have raised on a number of occasions here in our articles, is the unbridled freedom that CPS workers have, coupled with a startling lack of oversight, when dealing with parents and families. Which is why we would like to share this particular case with you, that deals with whether or…

  • U of M Law School Gets Grant To Review Shaken Baby Cases

    The University of Michigan’s Innocence Clinic is receiving an astounding $250,000 in federal grant money in order to reexamine convictions in a number of ‘shaken baby” cases. More and more in recent years, science is revealing that a great deal of the symptoms closely associated with shaken babies, are actually the result of a much…

  • Muskegon ‘Furry’ Accused of Sexually Abusing Young Boy

    In 2003, CSI introduced the wider world to the fascinating but little known subculture of ‘plushies and furries.’ For a time, after ‘Fur and Loathing (season 4, episode five), the media was full of stories about people who like to dress up as animals in full body fur costumes. However, the frenzy quickly faded away,…

  • Michigan Court of Appeals Rules: A Fetus Is Not A ‘Child’

    The Michigan Court of Appeals has thrown out a conviction against 30-year-old Melissa Lee Jones, a mother who was convicted of child abuse for using drugs during her pregnancy. This unprecedented ruling, while it has an immediate impact of Jones’ life, also has further reaching implications with regard to the abortion debate. Jones was convicted…

  • Michigan to Start Compensating Those Wrongfully Convicted of Abuse?

    Imagine this. Your three year old daughter, whom you love with all your heart, trips and falls down the basement stairs. She bumps her head at the bottom, and being a concerned parent, you take her to the emergency room and you’re told she’s fine. For a few days, everything is normal, and suddenly she…

  • What Does Michigan Law Say About Spanking? Part 2

    In the introductory article in this two part series, we discussed the fact that spanking is not illegal in Michigan. We also looked at how corporal punishment differs from child abuse in the legal definition, and talked about some cases of Michigan parents who were charged, but not convicted, of child abuse after spanking their children.…

  • What Does Michigan Law Say About Spanking? Part 1

    Spanking is a very controversial issue. There are many people who argue in favor of spanking their children, and just as many who believe that it is a form of abuse. For many people, they grew up being spanked by parents who loved them and wanted them to learn the error of their ways, which…

  • Foster Care: What Are The Long Term Effects?

    When kids are taken from their homes by CPS workers, they are viewed as having been ‘rescued’ and will now be placed with a ‘loving family’ that will care for them. Sometimes it really does happen this way. But few people stop to think what really happens to those kids. They are all presumed to…

  • Mom Sentenced To Prison For Accidentally Smothering Baby

    Although this incident took place in the Upper Peninsula where our firm doesn’t often practice, we would still like to share it with you as it is a situation that could happen anywhere. In this case, the tragedy took place in Ishpeming, to a mother of eight. According to court records, 37-year-old Nicole Christensen was…