LAW OFFICE OF
JEFFREY DEAN SCHWARTZ
ATTORNEY AT LAW
360 Ritch Street Ste. 201
San Francisco, California 94107
415-777-3170
Humboldt County
Mendocino County
EXPERIENCE
Experience:
JEFFREY DEAN SCHWARTZ A California Lawyer who is a California Criminal Defense Attorney based in San Francisco. Serving as a San Francisco Attorney in the greater Bay Area, Humboldt County and all of Northern California, he is a seasoned Appellate Lawyer as well as a very experienced criminal trial lawyer. Mr. Schwartz is also closely associated with trusted and experienced colleagues in Southern California, who assist him locally for all criminal defense cases in Southern California, where he began his career before moving to San Francisco in 1992. A graduate of Columbia University in New York City and John Marshall School of Law in Chicago, he has been working exclusively as a criminal defense attorney since the early eighties.
First and foremost Mr. Schwartz is an experienced trial lawyer. He has tried numerous cases from the smallest misdemeanors to death penalty murders. His successes include acquittals or dismissals in just about every kind of case including murders, drug trafficking, domestic violence, white-collar crime, robbery and more.
Not only has Mr. Schwartz successfully tried a death penalty case, he has vast experience at appellate work including a death penalty appeal and habeas petition. His experience with appeals complements his in-court trial work adding an academic element often missing from one-dimensional trial attorneys. Mr. Schwartz says that dismissals come because of his keen knowledge of pretrial motions that lead to winning cases on legal technicalities. Acquittals come with talent, skill and complex trial experience. Talent, skill and complex trial experience is what Mr. Schwartz is all about. For some of the news gathering highlights of Mr. Schwartz' career, please refer to his web page entitled "Good News."
Education:
Columbia University, M.S., 1989
John Marshall Law School, J.D., 1979
California State University, B.A., 1974
Organizations/Past and Present
Admitted to the United States Supreme Court, California Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Central, Eastern and Northern California Federal District Courts, and all other California state courts.
Member of the California Supreme Court Death Penalty Panel, the First, Second and Fourth District Courts of Appeal appellate panels.
Member of the Murder/Death Trial Panel in San Francisco Superior Court.
Member of the California State Bar, Bar Association of San Francisco, National Lawyers Guild, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice and the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys.
Board Member of the award winning Machen Community Center for Developing Minds in San Francisco.
Committee Member of the Sierra Club legal defense committee, retired.
Board Member of the Hollywood Bar Association, retired.
Teaching:
Associate Professor and Law Instructor, Chapman University, Orange 1990-92. Taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Legal Research & Writing and Business Law on an adjunct basis.
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Now handling Cyber Crime and Computer Fraud, as an Internet Fraud Lawyer, Jeffrey Dean Schwartz is one of the premier Criminal Defense Attorneys in San Francisco. From Misdemeanors to Murder, his criminal defense will level the playing field and he relishes getting good results. Below you will find just a few news clips about what Jeffrey Schwartz has accomplished in the criminal defense arena in California, San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area.
Drug trafficking charges dismissed
The Desert Sun
"The District Attorney is going to have to bring in real people and real evidence." Jeffrey Schwartz, defense attorney.
Bus Driver acquitted of murder
The Desert Sun
"Justice has been served," said the defendant's twin sister who had waited outside the courtroom throughout the trial. "The evidence was very weak", defendant's attorney Jeffrey Schwartz said.
Valley man cleared by jury of July murder
The Press-Enterprise
A Superior Court jury yesterday cleared a Coachella man who had been accused of murder based on eyewitness accounts, including his daughter's. His defense attorney, Jeffrey Schwartz, argued for acquittal in his summation to the jury Thursday afternoon. The prosecution, he said, had charged the wrong man using unreliable evidence from unstable people.
Jury deadlocks in Defendant's trial for murder
The Press-Enterprise
An Indio jury deadlocked 9-3 yesterday in favor of the acquittal of the defendant on charges of murder, robbery and assault in an attack on two men last August in a Thermal vineyard. The mistrial was declared shortly after the testimony of the key prosecution witness was reread to the jury yesterday afternoon.
Convict claims court is unconstitutional his appeal objects to municipal court judges hearing superior court cases.
The Press-Enterprise
A man serving seven years in prison for shooting a Rancho Mirage man wants his conviction reversed, saying he was prosecuted by an unconstitutional court system in Riverside County. He is taking aim at the judge who sent him to the California Institution for Men at Chino. The argument was raised by Stamps' appellate attorney, Jeffrey Schwartz of San Francisco, in a brief filed last week with the state 4th District Court of Appeal in San Bernardino.
Deputy demoted after beating inquiry
The San Francisco Chronicle
A veteran San Francisco sheriff's deputy has been demoted in rank and suspended for 30 days after an investigation into allegations that he beat an inmate who threw water and feces in his face. Jeffrey Schwartz, the inmate's attorney, has filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, and a federal grand jury investigation is under way.
Full articles are available for review upon request.
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