The case summaries and information below represent the character and quality of work my office provides to our clients.

• S. was charged in U.S. District Court - San Diego with possession of over one ton of marijuana at his home in San Diego after police found the marijuana and scales in his backyard. After intensive investigation with my investigator, Alan Stevens, I brought a Motion to Dismiss in which I alleged the police had violated the Fourth Amendment. After hearing the police testimony and my investigator's testimony regarding the facts and circumstances of the search, the Court issued an eight page opinion and order dismissing the case in which the Court noted in a footnote that my investigator's testimony was more believable than that of the police.
   
• G., a 50 year old female biking enthusiast tripped and fell in a San Diego bar on the afternoon of the Fourth of July. She shattered her right kneecap which required two painful surgeries to repair. She went back to work as a waitress as soon as her doctor permitted her to after each surgery. Although she testified that she had started imbibing early in the morning and the expert for the insurance company representing the bar contradicted my expert when he testified that the height of the threshold on which she tripped was less than ½ inch in height, the arbitrator selected by the parties determined, after hearing, that the bar had maintained a dangerous condition and found damages due my client to be 60 percent of $240,000.00 or $90,000.00. As the esteemed retired appellate court judge who heard this case stated in his decision, everyone has to look where he/she is going and go where he/she is looking, but even a local watering hole cannot maintain a dangerous condition.
   
• T. was charged in U.S. District Court - San Diego with conspiracy to import over 40 tons of marijuana from Thailand, selling the marijuana in California and transporting the proceeds in a motor-home to Canada where he was involved in renting a Boeing aircraft to transport the money to Switzerland where it was split up among the conspirators. He had a warrant issued for his arrest when he was living in Manila, but since the United States did not have an extradition agreement with the Philippines, he turned himself in to the United States Marshall in Hawaii. I was able to get him released on bond about two weeks after his arrest by putting up title to his property in Spain and when he went for sentencing he received a sentence of credit for time served.
   
• L. was charged in San Diego County Superior Court with molest of a 4 year old female child of a next door neighbor. R. L. owned buildings with rental units adjacent on either side of the building and lived in one of them. The San Diego District Attorney purported to have evidence consisting of the child's underwear containing my client's semen. After several requests for the DNA lab test results were ignored, I demanded that the test results be produced or the case be dismissed. The entire case was formally dismissed by the Court over the objection of the San Diego District Attorney.
   
• L. had been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity after which he was committed to a State of California mental institution by the San Diego Superior Court. After several years in confinement the doctors declared that he had regained his sanity and he was released from confinement. I motioned the Court in San Diego for an order of the Court declaring that he was innocent of the crime of murder. The motion was granted. (Note: No matter what you read in the newspaper, nobody pleads "INNOCENT" in any court in the United States of America. You cannot simply because you are presumed innocent. The only pleas allowed are those of guilty or not guilty.)