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Criminal Defense: Orange County
When facing criminal charges, you need the right attorney on your side. The best Orange County criminal defense attorneys understand how local prosecutors and police officers think, and anticipate the tactics and strategies they will use against you.
Equally important, your defense attorney should be respected by judges and law enforcement officials, and absolutely committed to the fearless protection of your rights with both determination and integrity.
Brian Gurwitz has the expertise and personal qualities you need in a criminal defense attorney. As a Senior Deputy District Attorney, Mr. Gurwitz was repeatedly called upon to play a key role in some of the most contentious, high-profile cases in Orange County history. He successfully argued numerous precedent-setting criminal cases in the appellate courts, including four cases in the California Supreme Court. He also testified before both houses of the Legislature, trained hundreds of prosecutors statewide, and served as a sentencing consultant to the California Law Revision Commission.
Mr. Gurwitz's practice now focuses on the defense of those accused of criminal offenses in Orange County — from drunk driving / DUI to homicide. He knows that a strong criminal defense is a critical check against the misuse of government power. He learned this as a prosecutor when his investigation of several prison inmates' appeals led to the discovery of new evidence that established their innocence. He also knows this from investigating and prosecuting cases involving police misconduct, brutality, and corruption at the highest levels of Orange County law enforcement.
For a free and confidential consultation about your legal matter, contact Mr. Gurwitz seven days per week.
In Your Defense: An Orange County Criminal Defense Blog
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- Bubble Assault I enjoyed this video, which is making the rounds on the criminal law blawgosphere this week. Look at the facial expressions of the blond police ....
- When Crazy Meets Lazy My favorite pathological curmudgeon, New York criminal defense attorney Scott Greenfield, has a good post today about an Orange County woman who was ....
- The DUI Client I Wish I Had I would pay this guy for the honor of representing him: (H/T to my new best friend, Jamison Koehler, who has a knack for giving me material to ....
- Eyewitness Identification: Be Very Afraid I have long believed that eyewitness identification is extraordinarily unreliable. This is not a sudden epiphany that I had when I became a defense ....
- When Cops Question Cops The race for Orange County Sheriff became a little more interesting today when the Santa Ana Police Officers Association withdrew its support of Bill ....
- Today, I Love Texas I'm here to extend my apologies to the Texas judicial system. I've mocked it recently, here and here. But I just learned (thanks to Houston blawger ....
- Mike Myers Prepares for Role of a Lifetime I read of Solicitor General Elena Kagan's impending United States Supreme Court nomination on Jewlicious.com, which informed me in the same article of ....
- A Few Bad Cops (Seattle Edition) Below is a video of Seattle police officers abusing a robbery suspect, a man they later realized was innocent. The suspect appears to be of Mexican ....
