An update in this case involving the spouse of US Senator Stabenow.  Read all about it in The Detroit News…

Woman arrested in sex sting asks judge to end case
Jennifer Chambers

The woman arrested in a prostitution sting involving the spouse of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow has no money to comply with the terms of her probation and is asking a judge to close her case.

Alycia Martin is unemployed, receives no financial support from her family and has no money to pay for drug and alcohol screens, monthly probation fees for her case or for the gasoline to get to the court-ordered appointments, her lawyer Frank Cusumano Jr. said.

Martin, arrested Feb. 26 at the Residence Inn and charged with prostitution, was allowed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of trespassing. Troy District Court Judge William Bolle placed Martin, who was 20 at the time of the offense, on probation under the state’s Youthful Trainee Act, which allows her criminal record to become nonpublic if she completes six months of probation.

Compliance with the random screens, monthly probation fees and fuel expenses will cost Martin $745 over the six-month probationary period. If Martin — who is more than five months pregnant — cannot pay for the drug tests, Cusumano says, she risks violating probation and going to jail.

“Ms. Martin does not want to go to jail, especially pregnant,” Cusumano wrote in a motion to the court requesting that Martin’s probation be shortened from six months to time served.

Cusumano also is asking the judge to consider the alternatives of allowing Martin to pay the fees at the end of the case or to revoke her Youthful Trainee Act status and sentence her immediately.