Assaulting a Police Officer
My question involves criminal law for the state of: Michigan
My husband was arrested February of this year at 2am for assaulting a police officer. There was two minors in the car who were drunk and one of these minors was driving. The police pulled them over and without even getting their ID's opened the back car door behind the drivers seat, and told my husband to get out of the car. He said "yes, sir" and I guess he was going fast enough for them and they pulled him out of the car and threw him on the ground. The police officer told the other two passengers in the car that they could go and let them leave. The police then proceeded to beat the crap out of my husband while he was on the ground. They finally put him in the back of a police car, all the while my husband keeps asking them why they beat him up and one of the officers started to unroll the window and told him to shut up or they will pepper spray him. While in custody the didn't give him a blanket and as he asked what his charges were they wouldn't tell him. They tasered him twice while on the ground and he has burn marks from the tasers. He also has a scar under his left eye where they dragged him on the ground. He has two witnesses(the two that were there in the car) that will be going to the trial with him but he's worried about going to jail for something he didn't even do. On the date of his pre-trial, his lawyer(who sucks by the way) told him that he bit one officer and pushed the other..and that it wasn't looking good for him. His lawyer post-poned the pre-trial date for tomorrow for discovery purposes, my husband has called him repeatedly to see the discovery packet but his lawyer keeps telling him he hasn't had time to get it. He's looking at 6 months in jail right now and honestly, I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any advice for us? I know that none of you may be lawyers but his lawyer obviously isn't helping us very much right now.