Michigan

People v. Hoffman, 2020 Mich. App. LEXIS 3471 Court of Appeals of Michigan May 21, 2020, Decided No. 347302 2020 Mich. App. LEXIS 3471 PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v SHAWN EDWARD HOFFMAN, Defendant-Appellant. Judges: Before: TUKEL, P.J., and MARKEY and GADOLA, JJ. Opinion Per Curiam. Defendant appeals by right his conviction of

People v. Stevenson, 2020 Mich. App. LEXIS 3376 (MI Ct. App. 2020) Court of Appeals of Michigan May 14, 2020, Decided No. 346571 2020 Mich. App. LEXIS 3376 PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v CLIFFTON LOUIS STEVENSON, Defendant-Appellant. Judges: Before: K. F. KELLY, P.J., and BORRELLO and BOONSTRA, JJ. Opinion Per Curiam. Defendant

People v. Young, 2020 Mich. App. LEXIS 2236 (MI Ct. App. 2020) Court of Appeals of Michigan March 24, 2020, Decided LOSD Brief: Facts: This case involves two women, the Defendant and the Victim, both of whom share the same baby-daddy.  The two got into a confrontation in the parking lot of the baby-daddy’s apartment

People v. Walker, 2020 Mich. App. LEXIS 1582 (MI Ct. App. 2020) Court of Appeals of Michigan March 3, 2020, Decided LOSD Summary: Facts: This case involves the Defendant killing of a 16-year-old acquaintance, the Victim.  Naturally, the Defendant and prosecutors provided the trial court with different versions of how the killing occurred. The prosecutors

People v. Daphelin Seon Triplett, 2020 Mich. App. LEXIS 606 (MI Ct. App. 2020) LOSD Summary: This case involves a domestic dispute in which the defendant threatened with a machete his female partner who had come to his home to retrieve her clothes and their mutual child.  After being threatened with the machete the female

People v. Rajput, 2020 Mich. LEXIS 127 (MI Supreme Court 2020) LOSD Summary:  The facts of this case are a bit complicated:  the defendant and a friend were driving in their car when they were fired upon by people in a second car.  The defendant and his friend returned home, then set out again in

People v. Croff, 2020 Mich. App. LEXIS 779 (MI Ct. App. 2020) LOSD Summary: This case is a good example of a typical “bad guy” case of self-defense, the type of self-defense claim most commonly seen in the criminal justice system and most easily defeated by prosecutors.  “Good guy” cases of self-defense tend to have