detroit.jpgMichigan largest city – Detroit’s downtown viewed from the Detroit River

If you’re caught cheating on your spouse in Michigan, you’re technically committing felony in the eyes of the law. According to the state law, the offence is deemed a first-degree sexual crime, punishable by up to life in jail. Interpreting the law literally according to statutory language means that a person who engages in sexual penetration in an adulterous relationship is guilty of the crime.

So cheating husbands and wives out there, beware! Fortunately, no one has yet been convicted of the offence since 1971…