How Has Michigan’s Clean Slate Act Changed Expungement Rules Since 2021?

Michigan Expungement Attorney Kevin Bessant understands the the various difficulties and hardships having a criminal conviction on your quality of life. A criminal conviction can often lead to a loss of employment; housing; government assistance; financial aid; professional licensing and many other opportunities that are often denied once a background check reveals a felony or… Read more »

How Do You Find the Right Criminal Justice Lawyer for Your Case?

Criminal Justice Lawyer – Finding The Right Lawyer Matters, Here’s How Criminal Justice Attorney Kevin Bessant understands the difficult decision a person has to make when the times comes to select a criminal lawyer for representation in court. As if being charged with a crime, or coming under police investigation is not stressful enough, often… Read more »

What Should You Do If Arrested for Domestic Assault and Battery in Michigan?

What to do and say if arrested for Domestic Assault and Battery. Finding yourself arrested or charged with Domestic Assault and Battery can be a very stressful and a difficult position to be in. In most legal cases involving domestic assault and battery, the accused is left without the proper resources and information to adequately… Read more »

When Must Police Read You Your Miranda Rights?

As a criminal defense attorney in Detroit, Michigan, one of the first questions asked of me by many of my clients following an arrest is “I was arrested and the police never read me my rights, shouldn’t my case be dismissed”. For many clients, a belief exists that this failure by the police to read them… Read more »

Is Renisha McBride A Repeat of Trayvon Martin?

The Conflict of an African-Amercian Criminal Defense Lawyer At first glance when the local news first reported the shooting death of 19 year old Renisha McBride, an African-Amercian female, who was shot and killed by a white homeowner, Theodore Wafer, 54, of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, an immediate feeling of frustration and anger was experienced by… Read more »

Whatever Happened to Michigan’s 2013 Expungement Reform Bill?

Attention Michigan Legislators: Move or Get Off The Pot!!!! As an advocate for helping people with criminal records seek the legal criminal expungement process to help clear their criminal past, I have been asked by several people over the past few month’s the same question: Where are we at with the passing of House Bill… Read more »