Legal Question in Criminal Law in Michigan

Michigan's current law (which has been the same for many years) does not allow any conviction to be set aside if the person has "more than one conviction" (misdemeanor or felony). Your felony attorney may have told you what he/she did before you got the misdemeanor convictions, or may not have known about those extra convictions ... or the attorney was just plain wrong. It doesn't change your legal status: you are ineligible to set aside the felony or even any of the misdemeanors unless the Legislature changes the law for setting aside convictions. The Legislature has been looking into this the past 4 years but bills sit and sit and sit without action being taken. So talk to your state Rep and Senator in Lansing as a constituent about amending this law to expand opportunities for expunction. Now, the APA's advice about "going back to challenge the misdemeanors" is a definite up-hill battle because few prosecutors will play this game of dismissing cases years after you were convicted just to clear the path for you to be eligible to apply to set aside your felony. Honestly, the real solution is for the legislature to change the law and allow a felony to be set aside even if the person has up to 2 misdemeanors (which was part of one of those bills that sat and sat and sat...).