DEFENSE OF CALIFORNIA RESIDENT AND COMMERCIAL TRUCK DRIVER CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IN JACKSON COUNTY, MICHIGAN

We were contacted by a law firm out west who referred a California resident to us who was criminally charged with felony possession of controlled substance after he was pulled over at the Grass Lake weigh station on I-94 in Jackson County by the Michigan State Police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division. The defendant had a warrant out for his arrest, so we had to act fast. It turns out our client had a valid prescription for the drugs but did not have it with him in his semi-truck when he was pulled over by the police. Within one day of being retained, our CDL attorneys had a deal worked out with the local prosecutor and trial judge to resolve the felony case with a deferred misdemeanor with fines and costs, and avoided the California resident from having to travel all the way to Michigan to turn himself in on the warrant and fight the charges in person. The case was ultimately dismissed, keeping a criminal conviction off our client's record, and resolving the outstanding warrant so he could go back to work as a CDL truck driver.