Expungement & Clean Slate

An old conviction can follow you for years — into job applications, housing, professional licensing, and school. Michigan’s Clean Slate laws opened the door for many people to have convictions set aside. Attorney Fletcher helps you find out where you stand and, when the door is open, walks the petition through to the end.

Setting aside a conviction is a court process, not paperwork you file and forget. It involves a petition, the State Police, the prosecutor, sometimes the original victim, and often a hearing before a judge. Having a lawyer who knows the local courts in Berrien, Cass, and Van Buren counties matters.

What a Set-Aside Can Mean

When a court sets a conviction aside, it stops appearing on the public record most employers and landlords search. For many people that is the difference between an application that stalls and one that moves.

• Job applications and background checks
• Housing and rental applications
• Professional and occupational licensing
• School admissions and financial aid
• Volunteering, coaching, and community roles

Matters Attorney Fletcher Handles

• Petitions to set aside misdemeanor and felony convictions
• Clean Slate questions — including convictions that may clear automatically
• Multiple convictions and how they are counted together
• Set-aside petitions involving driving offenses
• Hearings before the sentencing judge
• Re-petitioning after an earlier denial

Whether You Qualify Is a Real Question

Eligibility turns on the specific convictions on your record, how many there are, what kind they are, how much time has passed, and what has happened since. It is genuinely case-by-case, and it is not something to guess at from a website — including this one. That first conversation exists to give you a straight answer.

What Helps at the First Call

You do not need any of this to call. But the more of it you have, the more Attorney Fletcher can tell you in the first few minutes.

• Which conviction or convictions you want set aside
• The court and county where each case was handled
• Any convictions that came afterward
• Whether you are currently on probation or parole
• Any charges pending right now
• Whether you have petitioned for a set-aside before, and what happened

Start With a Conversation

If you are wondering whether an old case still has to define you, find out. Call Attorney Fletcher — consultations are confidential, and the line is answered 24 hours a day.