TESTIMONIALS AND RESULTS

Testimonials

For over 30 years Douglas Slain has provided high quality, inexpensive criminal law defense throughout the Bay Area.

Here are unsolicited statements from former clients:

“I was facing months in jail after driving recklessly at up to 90 miles an hour on country roads, to avoid arrest on another matter. You arranged reasonable bail within 90 minutes and thereafter got me absolutely the best result possible. I don't know how you did it, but I cannot thank you enough.”

“My second wife had called the cops after an incident. I hadn't touched her but I did threaten her in front our children as well as her best friend who was there to "protect" her. I fled the scene, got drunk, and called 10 hours later to Mr. Slain. Before I was even arrested he had the DA drop half the charges, and I never went to jail. In my third year of probation and he still gives me advice. Couldn't do better.”

“Thank you very much. I have never see anyone work so hard. Since my problem was that I was guilty, you got me the best terms I could have imagined. Thank the good Lord that there are still attorneys who care.”

“And they say you can never beat a DUI! Not only did you get them to drop that charge, but I never went to jail." [Client had been arrested, drunk, with key in ignition without clothes on, and in a compromising with a homeless youth he had just picked up.]

“When I got caught with a kilo of da kind in Marin, I thought I was a goner. That's what everyone in jail said. How you got me off with the terms I got I will never know, but I know that family and I thank you, especially my little girl.”

“Thanks to your efforts, our son just completed all the requirements and he is now living with us in Austin. He is off any drugs and going back to school and working. So we are happy things are going well for him. He seems very happy. Thanks again for everything.”

Recent Cases & Results

Charge: Penal Code Section 273a(b) -cruelty to child by inflicting injury-following Mom seizing child by the throat and choking her
Result: suspended sentence with community service in lieu of jail; Alameda Superior Court case/docket number 455142

Charge: Penal Code Section 245(a)(1) -aggravated assault-following client assaulting doorman (off duty SF cop) at a South of Market gay club
Result: charge reduced to public disturbance with community service in lieu of jail; San Francisco Superior Court case/docket number 070183636

Charge: Penal Code Section 342(1) -spousal battery-client threw chair at wife
Result: charge dismissed (after another lawyer had advised client to plea); San Francisco Superior Court case/docket number 072302964

Charge: Penal Code Section 245(a)(1)-assault with deadly weapon by means likely to produce great bodily injury-following client hitting someone with a pistol in an alcohol-fueled argument
Result: reduced to misdemeanor with no jail time, 6 months of community service, and alcohol program; Alameda Superior Court case/docket number 07-042684

Charge: Penal Code Sections 653.22 & 647 (b)-solicitation to engage in prostitution-following client being set up by amateurish cop sting
Result: charge dismissed for lack of evidence; San Francisco Superior Court case/docket number 07-499-477

Charge: Penal Code Section 647(b) -soliciting for prostitution-following sting operation
Result: charge reduced to infraction with community service; Santa Clara Superior Court case/docket number 07-100-0335

Charge: Penal Code 3691 violation-railroad trespass-following drinking episode
Result: charge dismissed; Alameda Superior Court case/docket number case/docket number 29185629

Charge: Penal Code Section 1054.3-battery-following fisticuffs at a Starbucks
Result: charge dismissed; Alameda case/docket number 519928

Charge: Penal Code Sections 211, 664, 667.5(c) violations-robbery, fraudulent use of credit card; endangering an elder-following fight and threats to an elder, with misuse of credit card domestic
Result: sentence suspended with community service and alcohol program requirements; Marin Superior Court case/docket number SC 154366

Charge: Penal Code Sections 372(a) and 23152(a)-oral sex in public park with keys in ignition while drunk-following assistant professor picking up homeless man for the above purpose
Result: charges dropped to infraction with community service with no public notice and no jail time; Alameda Superior Court case/docket number 07-17889

Charge: Penal Code Sections 12031(a) and 12025(a)(1)-concealed firearm in automobile-following discovery of gun in car driven by absent-minded client
Result: charges dismissed; Marin Superior Court case/docket number CR 154088

Charge: Penal Code Section 12022(a)(1) -armed robbery with firearm by minor-following 16 year-old client using pistol to hold up another student
Result: Six months in juvenile home; Alameda Superior Court case

Charge: Health & Safety Code Section 12702-possession of explosives-following sale of firearms to undercover police
Result: reduced to an infraction with community service