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After law school, he started working in the San Diego County Public Defender's office in 1995. [3] During his time in San Diego, Mr. Garcia was recruited to the Alternate Public Defender and then recruited to the Multiple Conflicts/Major Cases office as the youngest lawyer to join that homicide and capital litigation team.
The San Diego County Public Defender's office is an agency of the government of San Diego County, California. It provides legal assistance to individuals charged with a crime in state court who are financially unable to retain private counsel. [ 1 ]
As of 2011 the district attorney's office employs 310 attorneys. [1] The district attorney's office claims a 90+ percent conviction rate. [2] The main office is located in downtown San Diego in the Hall of Justice, with three regional centers in El Cajon, Chula Vista, and Vista.
Judy Clare Clarke (born 1952) is an American criminal defense attorney who has represented several high-profile defendants such as Ted Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Joseph Edward Duncan, Zacarias Moussaoui, Jared Lee Loughner, Robert Gregory Bowers, Burford Furrow, Lisa Montgomery and Susan Smith.
San Diego: 1950 2007–present — — G.W. Bush: 65 District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo: San Diego: 1958 2012–present — — Obama: 67 District Judge Cynthia Bashant: San Diego: 1960 2014–present — — Obama: 68 District Judge Todd W. Robinson: San Diego: 1967 2020–present — — Trump: 69 District Judge Linda Lopez: San Diego: 1968 ...
In 2005, Simmons was a deputy city attorney in the San Diego City Attorney's Office. From 2006 to 2017, he was a deputy district attorney in the San Diego County District Attorney's Office. [3] [4] During his tenure, he worked in the juvenile division, the superior court division and the gangs division. He has volunteered for Project LEAD. [5]
Sabraw lives in Scripps Ranch, San Diego. [2] He is married to Summer Stephan, a career prosecutor with the San Diego County District Attorney's office who was elected District Attorney in June 2018. [19] They have three children. [2] Sabraw's aunt, uncle and cousin are also judges, serving on the bench in Northern California. [2]
Starting in the 1970s, California began to slowly phase out the use of justice courts (in which non-lawyers were authorized by statute to preside as judges) after a landmark 1974 decision in which the Supreme Court of California unanimously held that it was a violation of due process to allow a non-lawyer to preside over a criminal trial which ...