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Michigan AG Establishes Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Board
September 25, 2019 LANSING –Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel today established a four-member Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act (WICA) Board to review each WICA request and make recommendations on key decisions in the litigation of WICA cases. Once cases...
Michigan AG Joins Bipartisan Coalition of 21 Attorneys General Urging Congress to Pass Marijuana Banking Bill
LANSING – Taking steps to protect Michigan’s emerging marijuana industry and its consumers, Attorney General Dana Nessel joined a bipartisan group of 21 Attorneys General Monday, urging Congress to pass legislation that allows legal businesses to access the...
National Expungement Panel of Legislators in Michigan
Local Expungement Panel of legislators and victims of the system discuss and tell their stories about working toward getting criminal records expunged for millions throughout the U.S.
Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Cops Accused Of Stealing $225K
A federal appellate court on dismissed a lawsuit claiming that 3 police officers alleged to have stolen more than $225,000 in property from two California men, reasoning that the officers did not violate the men’s Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and...
Michigan State Police Drunk Driving Audit Report
The crash program has been in existence since Public Act 300 of 1949. All law enforcement agencies in Michigan submit accident data to the MSP Criminal Justice Information Center on UD-10 Traffic Crash Reports. A crash report is completed when: the driver of a motor...
The Michigan Medical Marijuana Act: The First 24-Months
In Case You Missed It - What was someone thinking in 2010 about Michigan Medical Marijuana. A blog from way back machine. This article chronicles the implementation of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act, passed via referendum in the 2008 general election. As expected,...
Michigan communities with highest violent crime rate
Benton Harbor was Michigan's most violent city in 2017, based mostly on FBI statistics released Sept. 24. The FBI reported violent crime rates for communities all through the USA. Rape is outlined by the FBI as any sexual assault that entails penetration or tried...
Did John Sinclair Take Down Richard Nixon
Planet Green Trees Radio with Jamie Lowell-Rick Thompson-Michael Komorn-John Sinclair-Adam Brook
Hoban Law Announces Partnership Agreement with Komorn Law
Hoban Law Group and Komorn Law of Michigan are happy to announce a special counsel agreement to work together strategically to provide best in class client representation.locally and worldwide. Michigan has emerged at the forefront of cannabis law reform in the...
Michigan Court Costs Are Unconstitutional?
Courts across Michigan generate $418 million per year to fund their own operating expenses. They don’t raise $418 million by finding people innocent.
Federal Court Rules State Judges Cannot Profit From Fines and Fees.
Despite Congress abolishing debtors’ prisons in 1833, and the U.S. Supreme Court declaring them unconstitutional 150 years later, today, thousands of Americans are locked up for failing to pay their debts to the state.
Search of vehicle after drug odor ruled illegal
A judge's ruling that a vehicle search prompted by an odor of marijuana was illegal. An Pennsylvania judge has ruled that state police who said they smelled marijuana in a vehicle weren't allowed to search the vehicle once they were shown the driver's medical...
DID OHIO LAWMAKERS ACCIDENTALLY LEGALIZE MARIJUANA?
10TV WBNS was the first to break the news Wednesday that the City of Columbus will no longer prosecute misdemeanor marijuana cases. City Attorney Zach Klein says the decision is based on complications after the state legalized hemp. On July 30, Ohio Governor Mike...
Marijuana Policy Reform Legislation Review 2019
From the Marijuana Policy Project who was founded in January 1995 and medical marijuana was illegal in every state. Favorable legislation had not been introduced in Congress in a decade. Since then, Congress has approved budget riders to protect state-legal...
Michigan Civil Forfeiture Asset Update 2019
Michigan Civil Forfeiture Asset 2019 Update from a 2017 ICLE interview on asset frofeiture with Michael Komorn and Jeff Frazier. US Supreme Court decided Tyson Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. _____ (2019) on February 20, 2019. Tyson Timbs was convicted of drug charges...
Nevada to introduce first banking system for the cannabis industry.
Nevada officials to introduce the nation’s first banking system for the cannabis industry.
Social Equity (Adult-Use Marijuana)
The Social Equity Program is available as a provision under MRTMA to promote and encourage participation in the marijuana industry by people from communities that have been disproportionately impacted by marijuana prohibition and enforcement and to positively impact...
Federal data unmasks the epidemic of 76 billion opioid pills
There's a database maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration that tracks the path of every single pain pill sold in the United States — from manufacturers and distributors to pharmacies in every town and city. The data provides an unprecedented look at...