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 Kohler & Associates, P.C. are Criminal Defense Lawyers in Michigan handling Michigan criminal law cases of all types including Michigan traffic and Michigan vehicle code cases, Michigan DWI (driving while intoxicated), Michigan OUIL (operating under the influence of intoxicating liquor), Michigan UBAL (unlawful blood alcohol level), Michigan speeding tickets, Michigan impeding traffic tickets, Michigan drug (controlled substance) and possession offenses, Michigan domestic violence and stalking cases, Michigan probation violations, Michigan shoplifting offenses, Michigan prostitution and solicitation cases, all other major Michigan felonies, and Michigan internet crimes. We are centrally located at 20700 Civic Center Drive, Suite 170, Southfield, MI 48076, and can be contacted by phone at 248-737-8410 or fax at 166-728-4718/christopherkohler@kohlerlaw.net. |  Kohler & Associates, P.C. serves clients in Oakland, Wayne, Macomb, Livingstone, and Washtenaw counties. When you need a Michigan criminal defense attorney, Kohler & Associates, P.C. can give you the experienced, aggressive representation you need in your corner. |
| 763.1 Rights of accused; hearing by Michigan Criminal Lawyer, defense, confronting witnesses. | On the trial of every indictment or other criminal accusation, the party accused shall be allowed to be heard by a Michigan Criminal Lawyer and may defend himself, and he shall have a right to produce witnesses and proofs in his favor, and meet the witnesses who are produced against him face to face. |
| 763.2 Conviction; bases. | No person charged with an offense shall be convicted thereof unless by confession of his guilt in open court or by admitting the truth of the charge against him or after trial by the court or by the verdict of a jury accepted and recorded by the court. |
| 763.3 Waiver of trial by jury in criminal cases. | (1) In all criminal cases arising in the courts of Michigan the defendant may, with the consent of the prosecutor and approval by the court, waive a determination of the facts by a jury and elect to be tried before the court without a jury. Except in cases of minor offenses, the waiver and election by a defendant shall be in writing signed by the defendant and filed in the case and made a part of the record. The waiver and election shall be entitled in the court and case, and in substance as follows:"I, .............., defendant in the above case, hereby voluntarily waive and relinquish my right to a trial by jury and elect to be tried by a judge of the court in which the case may be pending. I fully understand that under the laws of Michigan I have a constitutional right to a trial by jury." |
| 763.4 Waiver of trial by jury; jurisdiction of judge, procedure. | In any case where a defendant waives his right to a trial by jury and elects to be tried by the judge of such court as provided in section 3 of this chapter any judge of the court in which said cause is pending shall have jurisdiction to proceed with the trial of said cause, and shall proceed to hear, try and determine such cause in accordance with the rules and in like manner as if such cause were being tried before a jury. |
| 763.5 Acquittal on facts and merits as bar to subsequent prosecution. | No person shall be held to answer on a second charge or indictment for any offense for which he has been acquitted upon the facts and merits of the former trial but such acquittal may be pleaded or given in evidence by him in bar of any subsequent prosecution for the same offense. |
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