Consulting Services
Find the Gaps. Trace the Source. Test the Timeline. Challenge the Assumptions.
Criminal defense evidence reliability and case analysis — built around defined work products with concrete deliverables. Defense attorneys are experts in the law. Michael brings something they rarely have access to: two decades of building cases from the investigative side and the firsthand knowledge of what it looks like when that system is turned against an innocent person.
Framed Not Guilty is not a law firm. Michael P. Andrews is not an attorney. Nothing on this site constitutes legal advice. All clients must be represented by a licensed attorney or public defender. Consulting services are educational and investigative in nature only. Attorneys remain responsible for all legal strategy, legal arguments, examination, and courtroom decisions.
For Criminal Defense Attorneys
Defined Work Products. Concrete Deliverables.
Defense attorneys are experts in case law, courtroom procedure, and statutory interpretation. Michael brings something different: two decades of building cases from the investigative side and the rare, firsthand perspective of someone who has been on the receiving end of a prosecution. He works alongside your legal team as a consulting resource, retained by and working under defense counsel.
Comprehensive Case Audit & Discovery Review
Review the State's discovery and produce a structured report identifying factual conflicts, unverified assumptions, missing evidence, unexplored leads, investigative gaps, and issues requiring additional investigation.
Master Case Chronology & Timeline Stress Test
Build a minute/day/month chronology incorporating statements, phone records, reports, locations, medical records, photographs, video, digital evidence, and known events. Flag impossibilities and conflicts.
Statement Evolution Analysis
Compare every available version of a witness's account — 911, body camera, initial officer statement, forensic interview, recorded interview, written statement, deposition and hearing testimony. Identify additions, omissions, contradictions, timing changes, and source contamination issues.
Corroboration Mapping
Separate genuinely independent evidence from repetition originating from the same witness. For each allegation, identify purported supporting evidence, its original source, and whether it independently corroborates the allegation or merely repeats it.
Investigative Gap Analysis
Identify witnesses never contacted, devices never examined, records never obtained, timelines never verified, alternative hypotheses never examined, and investigative conclusions unsupported by documented work.
Witness Statement Reliability Analysis
A structured comparison of statements against prior accounts, objective records, timelines, known facts, other witnesses, and the documented interview process. The purpose is not to declare that a witness is lying — it is to identify what is consistent, what changed, what can be independently verified, and what remains unsupported. Includes identification of prior inconsistent statements, documentary conflicts, bias indicators, and timeline problems for counsel's use in preparing examination.
Prior Questioning & Disclosure History Review
Analyze who questioned a witness before any formal interview, whether interviews were recorded, how the account progressed across contacts, and what compliance issues counsel may want a qualified expert to examine. Focused on the record — not clinical opinion.
Informant & Cooperator Evidence Audit
Examine benefits, changing accounts, cooperation chronology, prior statements, documentary contradictions, and what information the witness could have learned from sources other than the defendant.
Defense Investigation Planning
Working for and under defense counsel, convert identified gaps into discrete assignments for the appropriately licensed defense investigator: records to obtain, witnesses to locate, facts to verify, timelines to establish.
Trial Evidence Organization & Prosecution Theory Stress Test
Organize the case around prosecution propositions: what the State needs the jury to believe, what evidence actually supports each proposition, what contradicts it, and what remains uncorroborated. Available for attorney trial-team consultation during trial preparation.
For Represented Defendants & Families
You Deserve to Understand Your Own Case.
If you are facing criminal charges, especially for something you did not do, the system can feel overwhelming, opaque, and designed to work against you. Michael has been there. All services for defendants and families are coordinated with and require the participation of your defense attorney.
Case Comprehension Support
Michael helps you understand your discovery materials, the charges against you, and the procedural steps ahead so you can participate meaningfully in your own defense rather than sitting silently while others decide your fate.
Evidence Interpretation
A plain-language breakdown of the evidence the prosecution intends to use against you, along with an honest assessment of where the gaps, inconsistencies, and weaknesses may lie.
Attorney Communication Coaching
Guidance on how to communicate effectively with your defense attorney: what questions to ask, what information to provide, and how to ensure your attorney is pursuing every avenue available to you.
Preparing Questions for Your Attorney
Michael helps you identify and organize the factual questions you need answered before your next meeting with counsel — so your time with your attorney is focused, productive, and nothing important gets left unasked.
Case Organization Support
Help organizing your own records, timelines, and notes so you can present information to your attorney clearly and completely. Michael does not interpret legal documents or advise on legal strategy — that is your attorney's role.
All consulting for defendants and families requires that you are represented by a licensed attorney or public defender. Services are coordinated with counsel. Michael does not provide legal advice and cannot represent you in court.
How It Works
Initial Inquiry
Submit a consultation request through the contact form. Include your name, state, attorney name, case category, court date if relevant, and a brief non-sensitive description of what you are looking for.
Intake Consultation
Michael reviews your inquiry and schedules an initial call to assess whether consulting services are a fit for your case. This is a no-obligation conversation.
Engagement & Review
If both parties agree to move forward, Michael begins a structured review of your case materials: evidence, discovery, witness statements, and investigative records — coordinated with defense counsel.
Findings & Deliverable
Michael delivers a clear, organized work product — a written report, matrix, map, or memorandum — tailored to the specific service engaged. Your attorney receives findings ready to act on.
Ready to Build a Stronger Defense?
Defense attorneys: let's talk about what your case needs. Defendants: have your attorney reach out on your behalf.