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Patrick S. Hallinan Mr. Hallinan is a trial attorney specializing in the litigation of complex criminal cases in state and federal court. He has practiced law in San Francisco for thirty-eight years and, throughout his career, has been active in high-profile legal and political issues involving the conflict between the exercise of governmental power and individual liberty. He has been named the leading criminal defense lawyer in the Bay Area Surveys by the San Francisco Examiner and Attorney of the Year by California Attorneys for Criminal Justice as well as by the Drug Policy Commission of Washington, D.C. He has also been a frequent speaker at various bar and legal functions. |
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| Mr. Hallinan has represented
author Ken Kesey, San Francisco District Attorney Joe
Freitas, California Court of Appeal Justice William
Newsom, Congressman John Burton, Black Panther author
Eldridge Cleaver, the Soledad Seven, San Francisco
Sheriff Richard Hongisto, Federal District Court Judge
Robert Aguilar, and former California Schools
Superintendant William Honig. Mr. Hallinan was also
featured in the PBS series Frontline: Snitch, a
documentary about the harmful effects of the government's
use of paid informants in the federal criminal justice
system. Mr. Hallinan graduated from Hastings College of the Law (J.D. 1962) and the University of California, Berkeley (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1971). |
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