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Entries for February 2013

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

East Lansing DUI Attorney Mike Nichols Co-counsels Case To A Not Guilty In The East Lansing District Court

Categories: OWI

An East Lansing man stood before a jury with a breath estimate of .10 and .11 and a claim by a police officer that he ran a stop sign. 

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Friday, February 22, 2013

Mike Nichols of East Lansing tracks the latest successful breath test challenges

Categories: Michael J. Nichols

Is the Michigan DMT sound science? 

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Client Charged With OWI Second Will Not Have License Revoked Thanks to Plea Agreement Negotiated by Nichols Law Firm

Categories: OWI

“I think the prosecuting attorney saw the writing on the wall and instead of arguing a motion that they were likely to lose they offered a plea that my client could not refuse”

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Friday, February 15, 2013

Michigan Criminal Defense Attorney Mike Nichols Puts the Mitten State on the National Stage By Presenting at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences

Categories: Michael J. Nichols

Nichols will present the perspective of defense attorney in the workshop entitled “Science in the Courtroom – A Matter of Perspective.”

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Why Creating Magistrates with Badges is a Bad Idea

Categories: Michael J. Nichols

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

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Monday, February 11, 2013

The Michigan Supreme Court Rules That Medical Marihuana Patients Cannot Legally Transfer Marihuana To Other Patients

Categories: Josh Covert, Medical Marijuana

This means that it would be within the MMMA to receive marihuana if you are a patient but not to give or sell the medicine to another patient.

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Monday, February 11, 2013

Michigan Court Of Appeals Ruling Suggests That If You Go On Vacation Your Home May Be Searched Without A Warrant

Categories: Medical Marijuana

The officers first tried calling Mr. Hill’s phone number but there was no answer.  They then found an unlocked window and opened it up so that they could call out Mr. Hill’s name.  After there was no response, the officer’s decided to enter Mr. Hill’s home to make sure he was not in distress.  Once inside the officer found marijuana growing in a bedroom closet. 

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Thursday, February 7, 2013

East Lansing Police and Minors in Possession: It is like Shooting Fish in a Barrel and Its Lining the City Treasury

Categories: Minor in Possession

Recent statistics show Minor in Possession (MIP) tickets and arrests are skyrocketing in East Lansing

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

The Michigan Court of Appeals Allows Patient to Patient Transfers of Medical Marijuana

Categories: Medical Marijuana

Michigan Court of Appeals denied the prosecutors appeal and held that registered medical marijuana patients may obtain marijuana from other patients as long as the marijuana is not sold. 

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Monday, February 4, 2013

Michigan Attorney Mike Nichols Comments on the Efforts of a Crime Lab to Gain Independence from Law Enforcement and its impact on Forensic Evidence

Categories: Drunk-Driving

Nichols says that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) was critical of the tie between labs that are supposed to do independent scientific testing and law enforcement.

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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Michigan Drunk Driving Attorney Mike Nichols of Meridian Township says "breathal-eyes" and "novelty pbt" Devices are Just that: Novelties

Categories: OWI

"if you blow in a portable pbt or use those "breathal-eyes" devices, it will not give you a true representation of your bodily alcohol content."

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Friday, February 1, 2013

What’s More Dangerous? Consuming Alcohol Before Driving or Consuming Alcohol Before Having Access to a Gun in Your Home?

Categories: Carry and Conceal

 Michigan Criminal Defense Attorney Says a New Michigan Court of Appeals Opinion is Interesting in its Contrast of the Conduct

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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.