Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  FDSDI provides training programs for local criminal defense practitioners on all aspects of federal trial practice and federal substantive law throughout the year. These programs are free-of-charge and FDSDI is an approved provider of Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credits. Many program participants belong to the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) Panel, which consists of attorneys in private practice who are appointed to accept federal criminal cases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
• Sex Crimes
  United States v. Payne, 739 F. App’x 468 (9th Cir. 2018). The Court remanded Mr. Payne’s case for the district court (1) to clarify that the supervised release condition restricting access to the internet is aimed only at devices having the capacity to access child pornography and (2) to strike the family responsibilities condition.
• Robbery
  Our close proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border has a strong influence on our caseload. The majority of our clients are charged with drug and immigration related offenses. Our attorneys also have the opportunity to represent clients facing a wide variety of federal charges, including bank robbery, fraud, counterfeiting, pornography, assault, and firearms offenses.
• Embezzlement
  Topics in the 2023 Edition include: Special Considerations in Representing Noncitizen Defendants, International and Foreign Law, Mental Health Issues in Federal Criminal Practice, Evidence, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Plea Agreements, Sentencing, the Federal Bureau of Prisons as well as individual chapters covering numerous federal offenses including Crime in Indian Country, International Border-Crossing Offenses, Fraud and Embezzlement Offenses, Firearms, National Security, Drugs, and more!
• Drug Crimes
  Timothy Garrison is a Trial Team Leader at Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc. Since joining Federal Defenders in 2005, he has been defending people charged with offenses related to drug trafficking, immigration, firearms and various other federal crimes.  Mr. Garrison received his undergraduate degrees in History and English, as well as his J.D. from the University of San Diego.
• Assault
• Forgery
  The Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., (FDSDI) has an opening for an Investigator position in our San Diego office. FDSDI is the Community Defender Organization for the Southern District of California (San Diego and Imperial Counties). FDSDI operates under authority of 18 U.S.C. § 3006A(g)(2)(B), to provide federal criminal defense services by court appointment to individuals unable to afford counsel. FDSDI is a private, non-profit corporation and not civil service or federal employers. A large part of the case load involves immigration related offenses, drugs, fraud, bank robbery, forgery, and internet related crimes.

Immigration Law

• Citizenship and Naturalization