Criminal Law Advisory Board
Ayanna Alcendor
Great Lakes Legal Group PLLC, Southfield
Ayanna Alcendor practices in the areas of probate and estate planning, taxation, family law (divorce, child custody, and parental rights), criminal defense, and civil and special education mediation. Before joining Great Lakes Legal Group, she was a principal at Allied Legal Consulting. Ms. Alcendor is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the Oakland County Bar Association, Criminal Defense...View Full Bio
Victoria M. Burton-Harris
Washtenaw County Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Ann Arbor
Victoria M. Burton-Harris serves as the chief assistant prosecutor for Washtenaw County. She was appointed to the position January 1, 2021. Before this appointment, she was managing partner in McCaskey Law, PLLC, practicing in the areas of criminal law, family law, and probate and estate planning. She is a member of the Federal Bar Association, the Women's Bar Association--Oakland County,...View Full Bio
Britt Morton Cobb
Willey & Chamberlain LLP, Grand Rapids
Britt Morton Cobb is an attorney and partner at the firm. Ms. Cobb began her practice in Colorado in 1998 before relocating to Michigan in 2006. She has worked exclusively as a defense attorney, representing the accused in criminal cases at the trial level and also representing individuals in licensing matters, immigration matters, and in appeals. Ms. Cobb's practice has...View Full Bio
Ashlee Nicole Duplessis
Duplessis Law, PLLC., Livonia
Ashlee Nicole Duplessis has been a Michigan-based criminal defense attorney for her entire career. Ms. Duplessis has served as a court-appointed attorney in Genesee, Wayne, and Shiawassee Counties in the areas of violent crimes, sex crimes, and abuse and neglect proceedings. She is a member of the Prisons and Corrections Section of the State Bar of Michigan, the Criminal Defense...View Full Bio
Qamar Lina Enayah-Stamos
Oakland County Prosecuting Attorneys Office, Pontiac
Qamar Lina Enayah-Stamos has been an assistant prosecuting attorney for seven years. During her employment, Ms. Enayah-Stamos has been assigned to the Juvenile Justice Division as well as the Circuit Court Division. She has taken over 40 cases to trial as an assistant prosecutor. Ms. Enayah-Stamos is a member of the State Bar of Michigan's Criminal Procedure and Courts and...View Full Bio
Alexandra M. Giuliani
Law Offices of Raymond A. Cassar PLC, Farmington Hills
Alexandra M. Giuliani practices in the area of criminal defense. She started her professional career working for the firm in 2015, where she has assisted Mr. Cassar in several murder cases and difficult trials. Ms. Giuliani belongs to the State Bar of Michigan and received an Avvo Clients' Choice Award in 2018. While at Cooley Law School, she received the...View Full Bio
Robert M. Goldman
Law Offices of Robert Goldman, PLLC, Birmingham
Robert M. Goldman is the founding attorney at the firm. He focuses on areas of law such as criminal defense, driver’s license restoration, and expungements. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Goldman served as a township prosecutor, where his practice focused on municipal law. He concentrated on areas of law including ordinance enforcement and local government operations before he devoted...View Full Bio
Daniel W. Grow
Daniel W. Grow PLLC , St. Joseph
Daniel W. Grow is a criminal defense lawyer with a practice that covers all of southwest Michigan. Since 2009, he has limited his practice to criminal defense. He is a current board member and past chair of the Cannabis Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan and serves on the board of directors of Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan....View Full Bio
Danielle Joyce Hagaman-Clark
Department of Attorney General, Lansing
Danielle J. Hagaman-Clark is project director of the Violence Against Women Project, a program of the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan (PAAM). She has a wide variety of experience in training, prosecution, advocacy, and criminal law. Before joining PAAM, Ms. Hagaman-Clark spent 15 years with the Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in Detroit. She was a founding member of the...View Full Bio
Madelaine Lane
Warner Norcross + Judd LLP, Grand Rapids
Madelaine Lane is an accomplished white-collar criminal defense attorney, assisting clients with everything from complex civil investigations involving high-volume documents and high-risk publicity, to responding to discovery requests and conducting internal investigations, to creating convincing litigation strategies and leading a persuasive criminal defense at trial. She has extensive experience working in several sectors, including higher education, automotive, health care, finance...View Full Bio
Robyn N. Liddell
Department of Attorney General, Detroit
Robyn N. Liddell was appointed as the division chief of the department's Criminal Trials and Appeals Division in 2023. She began her service in the department as an assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division in 2014 and was promoted to first assistant attorney general in the Criminal Trials and Appeals Division in 2020. Ms. Liddell has also served as...View Full Bio
Debra K. Martinez
Clinton County Prosecutors Office, St Johns
Debra K. Martinez's areas of expertise are advocating and fighting for survivors of sexual abuse, prosecuting crimes committed against children, and evaluating discrimination and harassment in educational institutions. Before her current position with the firm, she served Ingham County as an assistant prosecuting attorney where she led the special victims unit and litigated complex and often high-profile sexual assault and...View Full Bio
Nicole Matusko
Ingham County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Lansing
Nicole Renee Matusko is the newly appointed chief assistant prosecuting attorney at the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office. Previously, Ms. Matusko served the Tri-County Metro Narcotics Squad, the Ingham County appellate unit, and as unit chief of the Crimes Against Children Unit. She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan Character & Fitness -- District E Committee, the Mid-Michigan...View Full Bio
Marla R. McCowan
Michigan Indigent Defense Commission, Lansing
Marla R. McCowan is the director of training, outreach and support with the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission (MIDC), working with trial court funding units to facilitate implementation of new continuing legal education requirements for over 2,000 attorneys accepting assigned criminal cases in Michigan. Ms. McCowan also works with a team of statewide regional managers who provide ongoing assistance to court...View Full Bio
Stephen A. Milks
Ingham County Public Defenders Office, Lansing
Stephen A. Milks practices in the area of criminal law, handling misdemeanor, felony, traffic and license, and OWI cases. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and its Criminal Law Section. Mr. Milks graduated cum laude from Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He received the top-best-advocate award for his advocacy in moot court, advanced...View Full Bio
Tina Nicole Olson
State Appellate Defender Office, Lansing
Tina Nicole Olson is the managing attorney of the Juvenile Lifer Unit at the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office. Previously, she was the Chief Appellate Counsel for the Wyoming Office of the State Public Defender. Ms. Olson is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and its Prisons and Corrections Section, the Wyoming State Bar, the Women Lawyers Association...View Full Bio
John A. Shea
John A. Shea, Attorney at Law, Ann Arbor
John A. Shea has been in private practice since 1988 and focuses primarily on criminal defense. He also represents clients in commercial and real estate litigation, professional malpractice defense, and in proceedings before the Attorney Discipline Board and other disciplinary agencies. He has appeared before courts and tribunals throughout Michigan, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court,...View Full Bio
Rachael M. Sedlacek
ICLE Advisory Board Liaison
Rachael M. Sedlacek joined ICLE as a staff attorney in 2012 and is now the director of ICLE's vast publications and online resources. She works on content planning, resource innovation, customer research, strategic initiatives, and supervises ICLE's staff lawyers. Before coming to ICLE, Ms. Sedlacek practiced in New Hampshire and handled a variety of family law, negligence, real property, and...View Full Bio