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Entries for July 2012
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Categories: Michael J. Nichols
The Michigan Supreme Court struck down an ordinance at Michigan State University that prohibited “disruption” of “normal activity,” finding that the ordinance violates the First Amendment.
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
Categories: Michael J. Nichols
DUI attorney Mike Nichols was recognized before an audience of attorneys from across the nation as a sustaining member of the National College for DUI Defense.
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
Categories: Drug Crimes
...defendant instead opted to seek protection under section 8 which is available to those who have been recommended to use marihuana by a licensed physician to treat a qualifying condition.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Categories: Drunk-Driving
"I find it ironic that the police chief and LPD are willing to go public about this falsified test when they attempted to cover up a falsified breath test log and it adversely affected many more people," said Michigan DUI attorney Mike Nichols.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Categories: OWI
Attorney Karen Phillips entered Judge Reincke's courtroom in Eaton County, Michigan with her client for Sentencing on an OWI 1st offense prepared to prove to Judge Reincke that her client was rehabilitated. The probation officer had recommended 10 days jail.
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Categories: Drunk-Driving
Wendy Schiller-Nichols recently negotiated a deal which dismissed both an OWI charge and a superdrunk charge for a client facing two OWI charges in the same county at the same.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Categories: Michael J. Nichols
DUI attorney Mike Nichols of Lansing, the Michigan delegate for the National College for DUI Defense, is off to Boston for the summer session of the National College for DUI Defense (NCDD) summer session.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Categories: Michael J. Nichols
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Categories: Drunk-Driving
A traffic stop in Marshall for weaving and touching the lane twice smelled funny to DUI attorney Wendy Schiller-Nichols. So she obtained the video and saw it for herself: the accused's driving did not appear to support reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop for suspicion of DUI
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Sunday, July 15, 2012
Categories: Drunk-Driving
Attorney Mike Nichols of Lansing says a new Michigan Supreme Court opinion makes it a little easier for the government to prove driving while license suspended cases.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Categories: Josh Covert
The United States Ninth Circuit Court recently held that baggage searches conducted by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) must be consistent with the TSA’s mission in order to be considered a reasonable search as is required by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Categories: Michael J. Nichols
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Categories: Drug Crimes
Last month the Pew Center on the States, a nonprofit division of the Pew Charitable Trusts, released a report which indicated that Michigan has the longest average period of incarceration among the 35 states surveyed.
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
DUI attorney Mike Nichols of East Lansing is attending a course on gas chromatograpy offered by Axion labs this week in Chicago. Nichols said: "it is critical to get my hands on the instruments and learn what makes them tick."
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Categories: Michael J. Nichols, Wendy M. Schiller-Nichols
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Monday, July 2, 2012
Categories: Michael J. Nichols
The Michigan State Police announced that it is changing its protocol for estimating the uncertainty of its analysis for blood alcohol.
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