How to Search Menominee County Criminal Dockets
Begin online with MiCOURT Case Search. For a Menominee County criminal docket, choose 95A District Court for adult intake, misdemeanors, or district-level felony work. Choose 41st Circuit Court - Menominee for a felony after bindover and its later motions, plea, sentencing, or post-judgment events. A case number is the best identifier. With a name search, use the court selection, case category, and a filed or offense-date range to separate similar names.
MiCOURT labels its public results informational rather than official. The clerk supplies inspection or copies of public papers. Note the displayed court, case number, case year, party role, and search date. A missing case is not proof that none was filed. It may be older, nonpublic, in the wrong court, not yet indexed, or blocked by a public-search limit.
- Open MiCOURT Case Search and choose 95A District Court or 41st Circuit Court - Menominee.
- Use Case Number Search when a court paper supplies the number. Otherwise use Name Search and enter the required last-name information.
- Narrow the result with the case type, status, filed date, or offense date when those fields are available.
- Open the matching public case and read its court, charges, events, hearings, and disposition text before drawing any conclusion.
- For a public document or certified record, ask the clerk for the specific paper rather than assuming the public result includes it.
95A Starts Menominee Criminal Cases
95A District Court's criminal-cases page lays out the local start of an adult case. A prosecutor files a complaint. A warrant may issue if the person was not arrested. An arraignment takes up the charge and bond. A felony preliminary examination generally happens within 21 days after arraignment. Misdemeanors move through a pretrial conference. They can end in a bench trial, jury trial, plea, dismissal, or another resolution, with sentencing after a criminal disposition.
The official 95A criminal-case information from the county shows the same sequence.
That sequence explains why an arraignment, bond entry, or preliminary examination can appear on a Menominee criminal docket. It does not make them an outcome. A scheduled event is just a setting.
Reach 95A through its clerk at (906) 863-8532. Both 95A and the circuit court sit in the Menominee County Courthouse, 839 10th Avenue, Menominee, Michigan 49858. General clerk and courthouse hours run Monday through Friday. They run 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding county holidays. Call ahead for an archived file, transcript, large inspection, or a time-sensitive hearing record.
What a Criminal Docket Shows
A public criminal docket lists case activity in order. It is not the full story behind the charge. Expect the court, case number and year, case type, caption, party role, filed date, events, hearing settings, documents, disposition, sentence or judgment details, closure, and any financial entries the public interface exposes. Fields can be missing or redacted. When you compare a setting with a later order, keep the court's exact event title.
| Case number | Use the year, local sequence, and case code exactly as displayed. A code such as FY marks a felony-criminal category; a district number may differ from a later circuit number. |
|---|---|
| Case type | 95A commonly uses FY for felony criminal, SM for statute misdemeanor, and OM for ordinance misdemeanor. Traffic-criminal codes have their own variants. |
| Charge and event | A complaint or charge is an allegation. Arraignment, bond, pretrial, preliminary examination, and motion entries describe procedural actions. |
| Disposition | Read the court's listed text for a plea, dismissal, conviction, or other result. A charge line alone is not a conviction. |
| Hearing and document fields | The public display may show a future setting or document title, while the clerk can confirm whether a public copy is available. |
Stick to neutral wording. Phrases like "the complaint alleged," "the docket lists," and "the court entered" describe the record without adding facts it does not contain.
Menominee Felony Docket Continuations
A probable-cause finding at a preliminary examination can bind a felony from 95A to the 41st Circuit Court. You then get a district record covering the complaint, warrant, arraignment, bond, and preliminary activity. A separate circuit record covers the felony. Search both courts when the public docket gives a cross-reference. Keep both case numbers rather than assuming one result holds the whole history.
The 41st Circuit Court handles bound-over felonies as the county's general-jurisdiction court. Marc Kleiman, the Menominee County Clerk and Circuit Court Clerk, processes circuit filings. The circuit-clerk number is (906) 863-9968. If MiCOURT lacks an older entry, a document, or a clear link between the two case numbers, use the public terminal. You can also ask the clerk.
Stages on a Menominee Criminal Docket
Entries on a Menominee criminal docket usually run from filing through arraignment. Then come pretrial activity, a plea or trial, disposition, and sentencing. In a felony, the preliminary examination falls between arraignment and the circuit continuation. Probable cause must support bindover first. The same label can mark a scheduled date instead of a finished proceeding. Before saying a hearing took place, check the later docket event, order, or clerk confirmation.
Docket flow: Complaint Filed › Warrant or Arrest › Arraignment and Bond › Preliminary Examination or Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing
Note: A criminal docket can record a procedural step without disclosing every paper, exhibit, or reason behind it.
Menominee Criminal Docket Codes
Case codes help with sorting. They do not describe a case fully. The Michigan Judiciary's case-type-code list marks FY as felony criminal. SM is statute misdemeanor, and OM is ordinance misdemeanor. It also separates traffic from civil-infraction variants. Read the current code list next to the caption, charge text, and court level. A short code cannot reveal every allegation, count, amendment, or ruling.
MiCOURT also warns of an MCL 750.92(3) data issue. An attempted felony displays the word FELONY. Let the charge, offense, plea, and disposition text control the careful description. Do not let that label stretch an attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation entry into a broader claim.
Which Court Holds Criminal Dockets
Adult cases start in 95A District Court. That Menominee County docket covers intake, misdemeanors, traffic-criminal matters, ordinance-criminal matters, and preliminary felony proceedings. Once a felony is bound over, the 41st Circuit Court takes the docket for motions, plea, trial, sentencing, and post-judgment work. Appeals go elsewhere. A final circuit decision can be appealed to the Michigan Court of Appeals. That court keeps its own separate docket. The county's court map also pulls juvenile, child-protective, and PPO work out of ordinary public criminal search results. Circuit jurisdiction alone does not make every category public. Check with the proper clerk first. Confirm the case type and access status before requesting a file.
Menominee Criminal Files and Agencies
A court docket is not the same thing as an investigation file. The prosecutor's office under Jeffrey T. Rogg carries out the state's criminal role in Menominee County, but what that office holds is no stand-in for the court's register or its public case papers. A police report sits with a police agency. A jail record sits with the jail. A probation record sits with probation, and the court docket with the clerk. Each office follows its own access rules. Ask the court that maintains the record when you want the court record itself.
The Prosecuting Attorney page explains that office's part in criminal cases in Menominee County.
Menominee County splits the work. The clerk keeps the criminal docket and the court file. The prosecutor handles the charging side.
The Family Court Unit covers juvenile delinquency and child-protection cases for the prosecuting attorney. Those matters stay separate from adult court records. So a result on an adult criminal docket tells you nothing about any juvenile case. Juvenile files are not treated as ordinary public dockets.
The county's own Family Court Unit page spells out that juvenile and child-protection work in the prosecutor's own words.
Juvenile and child-protective records need their own access analysis. A routine adult docket search will not answer for them.
Public Access and Sealed Criminal Dockets
MCR 8.119 sets the rules for inspecting and copying Michigan court records. Public case records can be viewed or copied through the court's own process. Restrictions and fees apply, and originals stay in court custody. So ask for something specific. Request the public register of actions, a named docket entry, an ordinary copy, a certified copy, or a judgment of sentence. Name the court, case number, and caption. An approximate date makes the request far easier to fill.
Some limits still apply. Certain public criminal results cover only convictions sentenced within the last seven years. MiCOURT excludes or restricts juvenile proceedings and PPO matters. MCR 1.109(D)(9) also requires protection of personal identifiers, meaning Social Security numbers, dates of birth, identification numbers, passport numbers, and financial-account information. If a docket comes back sealed, suppressed, or blank, ask the clerk a question. Does a public or redacted portion exist? Do not assume there is no record at all.
Key Rules:
MCR 8.119 provides the Michigan court-record inspection and copying framework, including restrictions on nonpublic records.
MCR 1.109(D)(9) requires redaction of protected personal identifying information from court filings.
MCL 600.2546 is the state source for certification and copy-fee guidance; confirm the Menominee clerk's current price before ordering.
Menominee 95A Criminal Workload
The official 2023 95A caseload report puts the variety of Menominee County criminal docket codes in context. It counts 1,838 new filings across the board. The breakdown includes 229 felony-criminal filings. It adds 188 statute-misdemeanor filings and 4 ordinance-misdemeanor filings. It also covers 20 felony drunk-driving filings, 5 felony-traffic filings, and 167 OUIL/OWI-related misdemeanor-code filings. Keep in mind these are court-report categories. They describe the workload, not any single case or person.
A name alone will not cut it here. Start your Menominee County criminal docket search with the court, the code, and the case number, since the docket blends counts from more than one source.