Candidate for
District Attorney; County of Humboldt

PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY:Share

THE HARLAND LAW FIRM, LLP EUREKA, CALIFORNIA Partner - October 2004-present Civil Litigation: representing clients in diverse State and Federal civil matters including but not limited to land use, CEQA, employment law (both employer and employee), civil rights matters (plaintiff or defendant), eminent domain and inverse condemnation, fraud, contracts, corporate, construction, business law, government law and anti-slapp motions. Advise clients regarding course of action for litigation, draft complaints, answers, cross complaints, conduct discovery and all pretrial and trial matters, legal research.

Appellate: handle complex administrative records, research, draft and file briefs, responses and replies.

HUMBOLDT COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE EUREKA, CALIFORNIA Deputy District Attorney April 1994-June 2004 Senior Trial Attorney and Lead prosecutor of Child Abuse Services Team: vertically reviewed and charged complex cases involving prolonged periods of child abuse, multiple victims, statute of limitations issues and repeat violent offenders. Extensive use and understanding of special allegations, conducted preliminary hearings, complex pretrial and trial motions, jury trials and sentencing. Specialized vertical caseload involved all sexual assault cases involving child, adult, the disabled and elderly along with cases involving child physical abuse and neglect, sexually violent predators, child pornography, computer crimes involving juvenile victims and sex offender registration violations. Advised and trained and guided law enforcement in diverse Child Abuse issues re: collection of evidence, forensic interviews, follow up investigations in all cases and policies in sex offender registration enforcement. Maintained and expanded policies, training and guidelines for state of the art multi-disciplinary child abuse team. Significant understanding of complex forensic interview issues for use during direct or cross examination of expert witnesses during both pretrial and trial phases of the case. Significant understanding of complex medical issues for use during direct or cross examination of expert witnesses regarding physical trauma in children and adults for use in both pretrial and trial phases of the case.

Humboldt County Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), Chairperson from 1999 - 2004.

Humboldt County Child Abuse Services Team (CAST), Advisory Board Member from 1997 - 2004.

Participant on the Humboldt County Child Death Review Team. Experienced Senior Trial Prosecutor in all serious felony cases from arraignment, bail hearing and preliminary hearing through trial and sentencing including but not limited to: homicide, attempted murder, robbery, arson, kidnapping, hate crimes, elder and dependent adult abuse, assault with deadly weapon, crimes where firearms were used, crimes where great bodily injury was inflicted, manslaughter, burglary, theft, fraud, drug cases, animal abuse. Significant knowledge in the review, charging and filing of all felony cases. Significant understanding and review of search warrants for approval and submission to the on call Judge. On call prosecutor for felonies and search warrants;

Significant knowledge, understanding of development of all pretrial and trial motions in all felony cases including but not limited to: opposition to motions to suppress evidence, oppositions to motion to dismiss, opposition to motions to change venue, oppositions to Miranda and Massiah motions, motions to compel discovery, opposition to motion to recuse district attorney, opposition to writs of Habeas Corpus, and all evidentiary motions.

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA July 1993- March 1994 Law and Motions: Drafted and argued legal briefs, including oppositions to motions to suppress evidence, motions to dismiss after preliminary hearing, opposition to motion for change of venue, opposition to motion to recuse and opposition to motion to quash search warrant;

Second chair, felony jury trials; Legal research and analysis for charging decisions; Presented evidence in court and argued motions.

SANTA CLARA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA Legal Intern January 1991-April 1991 Assigned to Law and Motions Unit. Reviewed pleadings, police reports and dispatch tapes. Conducted legal research and drafted responsive pleadings to motions and writs. Presented evidence in court and argued motions.

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN JOSE, Legal Clerk June 1990-December 1991 Criminal Division. General prosecution of misdemeanors from filing of information through court trial;

Reviewed pleadings, police reports and dispatch tapes. Conducted legal research and drafted responsive pleadings to motions and writs. Presented evidence in court and argued motions before the Federal Magistrate.

TEACHING AND SEMINARS Instructor - College of the Redwoods Police Academy: Evidence, Sex Crimes, Child Abuse CATTA - Child Abuse Training and Technical Assistance Center, Northern California Legal Component for Multidisciplinary Team Approach for Interviewing Children (sponsored by the Department of Justice)

EDUCATION Santa Clara University School of Law - JURIS DOCTOR, 1991 Santa Clara, California Santa Clara Law Review: TECHNICAL EDITOR San Francisco State University San Francisco, California 1986-1988 Graduate Studies - Masters program (Interdisciplinary Studies in the Social Sciences) 1982-1986 - BACHELOR OF ARTS (Magna Cum Laude) Majors - Political Science, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Social Sciences - Criminal Justice January 1984 -June 1988, Teaching Assistant - Criminal Justice Program Professor Sue Bessmer September 1985 - June 1986 Research Assistant - Professor Peter Garabedian Department of Sociology in conjunction with the San Mateo District Attorney's Office, for "The Impact of Proposition 8 on Plea Bargaining in San Mateo County"

LICENSES California State Bar, license number 157078

Member of the Board of Directors + Friends of Cal-Ore Fish