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Entries for January 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Michigan’s Legislature is Again Cracking Down on Drunk Driving

Categories: Drunk-Driving

 When Your Biggest Fear is Your Future – Why Trust Your Case to a Lawyer Who Needs Help in Giving You Your Best Chance to Win? Call Mike Nichols – the Lawyer Who Many Lawyers Call for Help

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Good News For Client Of The Nichols Law Firm Who Was Charged With Violating The MMMA

Categories: Medical Marijuana

 “I feel that asserting the affirmative defense definitely gives us a leg up at trial.  It is important to remember that the MMMA was a voter initiative and that it was passed in every county in Michigan and that it passed by an overwhelming majority” 

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Why even ask for consent for the blood draw if you can just take it?

Categories: Michael J. Nichols

The Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments on January 9 on a case in which the government lawyers are actually finally doing what we always knew they wanted: they are asking for a "DUI exception" to the constitution. 

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Meridian Township drunk driving attorney Mike Nichols may know the key to clearing your name of OWI-OUIL-DUI charges in the Okemos Michigan area

Categories: OWI

"What many people don't know is what may be going on behind the scenes to try to give the public a false sense of confidence in the evidence gathering unit at the MTPD."

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Friday, January 25, 2013

Michigan Court Of Appeals Releases Another Opinion Addressing the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act

Categories: Medical Marijuana

 The Michigan Court of Appeals just released an opinion, People v Argo, that once again illustrates that defendant’s charged with violating the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMMA) are entitled to an evidentiary hearing to determine if they may assert a section 8 affirmative defense. The Court of Appeals also looked into whether or not the prosecutor committed prosecutorial misconduct.  

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Mike Nichols takes on the new breath test instrument in Michigan and multi-client litigation in the works for East Lansing drunk driving cases

Categories: Drunk-Driving

 East Lansing OWI OUIL OUID Attorney Mike Nichols is working with other attorneys to lead a challenge to some of the issues with the breath alcohol device known as the Datamaster DMT 

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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Michigan OWI-OUIL-OUID lawyer Mike Nichols plays "toxicologist" at the National College for DUI Defense Winter Session

Categories: Michael J. Nichols

Assumptions in drunk driving cases can lead to mistrials

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Monday, January 14, 2013

Michigan drunk driving attorney responds to United States Supreme Court Case on warrantless blood draws in OWI-OUIL cases: Is the Missouri case going to change anything in Michigan?

Categories: Drunk-Driving, OWI

The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments on January 9th on whether or not police should be allowed to conduct warrantless blood draws of drivers suspected of driving under the influence if the driver refuses to give consent. 

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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Michigan Criminal Defense Attorney Mike Nichols secures release of Illinois man charged with conspiracy in drug ring that allegedly distributed over 5.5 million of medical marijuana across the country

Categories: Drug Crimes

An Illinois man is free on an unsecured bond after criminal defense attorney Mike Nichols secured his release in a detention hearing in federal court.

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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Minor In Possession Client With A Previous Offense Gets Case Dismissed

Categories: Minor in Possession

A very happy 21st birthday to a client of the Nichols Law firm charged with Minor In Possession has her charges dismissed.

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Supreme Court Rules That Marihuana Cooperatives Are Illegal But Allows Defendant To Assert Affirmative Defense

Categories: Medical Marijuana

The Michigan Supreme Court recently issued their second opinion addressing the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMMA)

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

A woman learns a hard lesson about finding the right lawyer from the Michigan Court of Appeals - at the expense of a prison sentence for a drunk driving causing death conviction in Berrien County Michigan

Categories: Michael J. Nichols

Michigan OWI-OUIL-OUID lawyer Mike Nichols of Lansing praised the dissenting judge for an opinion disagreeing with the majority

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Friday, January 4, 2013

The Michigan Legislature is going the wrong way on drugged driving" - calls for a major repair before innocent people are incarerated

Categories: Drunk-Driving

 Nichols says "this new law is so subjective, it allows the police to make an arrest, a prosecutor to start a case and sets up the Michigan State Police lab to convict innocent people.

 

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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Michigan OUID-OUIL-Drunk Driving Attorney, Mike Nichols of East Lansing Teaches Courts About the Meaning of Blood Tests

Categories: Michael J. Nichols

 Mike Nichols of East Lansing successfully suppressed a blood test by the Michigan State Police lab that claimed to detect accurately and reliably the presence of marijuana in a client’s blood sample. 

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Mike Nichols is a national leader in drunk driving defense. He is a member of the Forensic Committee and Michigan delegate to the National College for DUI Defense. He is also a Sustaining Member of the College. Nichols is also a founding member of the Michigan Association of OWI Attorneys; a member of the American Chemical Society; an associate member of he American Academy of Forensic Science, Adjunct Professor of Forensic Evidence in Criminal Law and OWI Law and Practice at Cooley Law School. He is also author of the West OWI Practice book and several chapters in other books on science and the law.

Mike Nichols is recognized by his peers in Michigan as a “SuperLawyer” in DUI/Criminal Defense. Nichols has also been asked to speak at conferences by groups such as the NCDD; Various Bar Associations in other states.