Howard City, MI Criminal Defense Law Firms & Lawyers

Your eligibility for expungement depends on how old you were when you were convicted. You may need to get the misdemeanor dismissed so that you then can proceed on a Motion to Set Aside the conviction for home invasion.

All court appointed attorneys have been screened by the court in order to be approved to be on the list. If convicted of a crime that has a two-year mandatory minimum sentence, then yes he would have to spend at least two years in prison and that sentence would be served consecutively or after any other sentence of any other crimes that he was convicted of was served. In other words, he serves his other sentence first and then the two year minimum sentence after that is complete. Courts will not allow a defendant to keep picking and choosing his court appointed attorney until he finds one that he likes best. The court will only replace his attorney for good cause. You are always free to retain your own lawyer at any time.

You can be charged with possession, but if your lawyer can prove that the search was illegal, then the contraband will be inadmissible and the fruits of the poisonous tree and therefore will not result in a conviction.