Can I have my case thrown out? Do i need a lawyer to ask for it to be thrown out?

The search does not sound illegal to me based on anything you have told us, and even if it were a questionable search, the law of search and...

I received a ticket for retail theft in 2013, now I can't get a job. What can I do?

You have not told us what the disposition of your case was, and that makes all the difference. It is not clear from your posting whether or not...

Keep in mind that withdrawing a plea of guilty, assuming that the court would permit you to do so, can be like running back into a burning...

If you cannot expunge felonies (drug related) in Illinois, how do you get a pardon

Expungement is not a precondition of getting a pardon, and the one remedy has nothing to do with the other. Expungement is a judicial proceeding...

New discovered evidence

Very few things in the law are so cut-and-dried that one can say about them that a legal opinion "wasn't true."

If the court of appeals has concluded that his petition is successive and has denied his request for a leave to file a successive petition he is...

Postal worker falsified a delivery notification, when I told him I was going to report him he filed a false police against me.

It is highly improper, in my opinion, ever to alter or remove a police report. The report is not, however, any kind of evidence against you and...

Discover

In Illinois state court cases it is very common for the prosecution to hand over discovery material to the defense in open court. So the...

I assume that Michigan is typical of other states. There is no rule or limit as to how much time a lawyer can, or should, invest in preparing a...

If I received 3 months supervision in Illinois and was found guilty will a background check still show a conviction?

Background checks can be pretty variable in what they show. You can expect that a background check will show both the arrest and the filing of the...