Michigan’s courts and the State Police publish a great deal of data about criminal cases, but it is spread across many separate reports and dashboards. Each study here pulls the official figures for West Michigan together, explains what they count and what they leave out, and links every number to its source and the period it covers.
The studies describe all cases in a court or county. They are not the results of this office, and they do not predict how any one case will end.
Studies
How OWI Cases End in West Michigan District Courts
76%of the 2,717 drunk-driving cases eight West Michigan district courts closed in 2023 ended in a guilty or no-contest plea.
Pleas, dismissals, felony bindovers and trial verdicts in the 56-B, 57th, 58th, 59th, 61st, 62-A, 62-B and 63rd District Courts, 2019 to 2023.
Statistics in our guides
These pages in the resource guides also collect official, dated figures:
- Impaired-driving crashes and OWI arrests in West Michigan counties
- Michigan drunk-driving statistics
- Michigan domestic violence statistics
- Michigan sexual assault statistics
How we work
- Official sources only: court caseload reports, State Police data and other government records. Every figure names its source and its period.
- Our own calculations, such as totals across courts and percentages, are labeled as ours, and the script and source files behind them are kept with each study.
- We use the latest year a source publishes in a form we can download and check. Where newer figures exist only on a dashboard, the study says so.
- Where sources disagree or a court records data differently, we say so.
- Spotted an error? Tell us and we will correct it and note the change on the page.
Sources index
- Michigan State Court Administrative Office (SCAO), district court caseload reports, 2019 to 2023 · used in: How OWI cases end
- SCAO, District Court Caseload reporting instructions (SCAO 18) · used in: How OWI cases end
- Michigan Trial Court Records Management Standards, Case Type Codes · used in: How OWI cases end
For reporters
The counts in each study are public court statistics; each study names and links the official reports they come from. Reporters with questions about a study can reach the office at 616-438-6719.
Legal information, not legal advice. These studies describe public statistics. They are not advice about any case, and reading them does not create an attorney-client relationship.