Michael Peter Kushner

Im tied between 1 or two stars but i'll give him 2 stars because he ultimately won my case. My main complaint about this attorney is he avoided MOST of my calls and text messages. Speaking to him was almost impossible. It was so bad that a detective told me she left him 3 voicemail messages and he n...ever returned her calls. It was frustrating. He came to court a FEW times extremely late and had an excuses which appeared to be a lie. One time he told me he was late due to a car accident. Another time he came to court after lunch and he told me he was in the district attorney's office having a discussion about the case. I checked the ADA office to find out he was never there, and he never signed the lawyers book. To his credit, he won my domestic violence case at trail. He was actually pretty good at interrogating the witness. However, he never subpoenaed my telephone records or retrieved Facebook info in time for trail (which would have proved my innocents immediately and possibly avoided ever going to trial). He failed to provide documented evidence where the witness had previously lied under oath. Those details would of won my bench trail case with no doubts, but waiting two days for a veridic was worrisome because it came down to her word vs mine. (it shouldn't of been that way due to all the evidence i had). I believed I won trail because the witness was an obvious liar. In addition, his knowledge of extradition law was limited. He told me if I were to sign an governors warrant wavier that the state of Florida had 3 days to pick me up. That information was far from true. Essentially, I felt like he didn't care about my case. Not responding to my phone calls or text messages was just unacceptable. And for those reasons I would not recommend this lawyer.