Attorney Profile
Mitchell T. Foster
Mitchell Foster
Milford
Michigan (MI)
Practice Areas:
Criminal Defense (50%), Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI (40%), Bankruptcy: Consumer (10%)
Criminal Defense
Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI
Bankruptcy: Consumer
Law School:
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
Profile
Mitchell T "Mitch" Foster, founder of Mitch Foster Law, represents individuals accused of felonies, misdemeanors, traffic tickets, drunk driving, operating while intoxicated by alcohol or drugs, operating while impaired, and DUI throughout Michigan. He has gained recent acquittals "not guilty verdicts" for clients accused of assault and battery, domestic violence, criminal sexual conduct, home invasion first degree, larceny, breaking and entering, fleeing and eluding police, driving while license suspended, possession with intent to deliver controlled substance, drug delivery, and malicious destruction of building. Mr. Foster also handles criminal appeals, having gained early releases for several clients serving prison and county jail sentences. Mitch had a felony maintaining a drug house conviction overturned by the Michigan Supreme Court after a successful appeal from the Michigan Court of Appeals. Mitch recently appealed the sentence of a client serving prison time for drunk driving and had this minimum sentence reduced by 9 months. In 2009, Mitch appealed a conviction of a weapons possession charge, and this conviction was overturned by a circuit judge after Mitch filed a motion in that court. Mitch graduated from University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 1992. He is a member of the National College for DUI Defense, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan. Mitchell T "Mitch" Foster represents people accused of felonies and misdemenaors in the metro Detroit area, including Pontiac, Oakland County, Detroit, Wayne County, Mount Clemens, Macomb County, Howell, Livingston County, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Flint, Genesee County, Lapeer, Lapeer County, Brighton, Hartland, Fenton, Grand Blanc, Davison, Livonia, Plymouth, Canton, Sterling Heights, Warren, Dearborn, Farmington Hills, Southfield, Troy, Rochester Hills, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township, Waterford, Commerce Township, Highland Township, Novi, West Bloomfield, Birmingham, Oak Park, Ferndale, and Royal Oak.Drunk driving defense is one of Mitch's areas of speciality. Drunk Driving is also known as OUID, OUI, OWI, OUIL, Operating While Intoxicated, Operating While Impaired, Operating While Visibily Impaired, or Operating a Vehicle Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor. Often minors that are arested for drunk driving are charged with zero tolerance, or MIP, which is minor in possession.
Selected To
Michigan Super Lawyers 2011
Michigan Super Lawyers 2010
Michigan Super Lawyers 2009
Michigan Super Lawyers 2008
Michigan Super Lawyers 2007
About Mitchell Foster
Admitted: 1992, Michigan
Professional Webpage: www.mitchfosterlaw.com/about_us/index.html
Honors and Awards:
- Click HERE to view my Avvo.com rating and profile.http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/48381-mi-mitchell-foster-739361.html
- Mitch participates in the representation of indigent prisoners in the prisoner civil rights litigation program by representing clients through settlement or trial of these civil rights cases, Certificate of Appreciation, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 2006
Special Licenses/Certifications:
- Certified in the Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, including the three recognized standardized field sobriety tests by NHTSA (National Highway Transportation Safety Administration): (1) HGN - Horizantal Gaze Nystagmus; (2) Walk and Turn; and (3) One Leg Stand, 2007
- Received special training at National Patent Analytical Service in Mansfield, OH from the manufacturer of the Datamaster; Michigan's breath test machine for DUI enforcement. This training involved learning the science of evidential breath testing and the mechanics and inner workings of the breath test machine, revealing the limitations upon the accuracy and reliability of this machine., 2009
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Member of the State Bar Committee on Criminal Law and Jurisprudence, 2006
- Barrister in the Oakland County Bar Association chapter of the American Inns of Court, 2010
Pro bono/Community Service:
- Participation through the Oakland County Bar Association, including representing clients at no charge and volunteering with the Mobile Law Office for free consultations with indigent individuals., 2008
Verdicts and Settlements:
- Maintaining a Drug House conviction overturned by the Michigan Supreme Court. All criminal charges were reversed completely erasing this criminal conviction., 2008
- Felonious Assault charges against Mitch's client dismissed by Oakland County Prosecutor's Office, 2008
- Weapons conviction for one of Mitch's clients overturned by Chippewa County Circuit Judge, 2009
- not guilty verdict in 48th District Court to the charge of malicious destruction of building, 2009
- Successfully appealed implied consent breath test refusal in front of secretary of state hearing officer, 2010
Other Outstanding Achievements:
- Participation in the Michigan Supreme Court's "Court Community Connections" Program in Historic Barry County Courthouse. Successfully argued against the Macomb County Prosecutor's coercive "all or nothing" packgage plea bargain policy. On June 13, 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that there was an inadequate factual basis for the client's guilty plea and reversed his plea based conviction. The program included a luncheon, and after argument debriefing with questions and answers with local high school students, to help educate them on the legal system and the experience before the Supreme Court. People v. Lamorand, 481 Mich 891, 745 NW2d 762 (2008), 2008
Educational Background:
- BS - Business Adminsitration - University of Denver, Denver, CO, 1989
- JD - University of Detroit Mercy, School of Law, 1992
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