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Brian M. Worthington

Salinas, California

Brian M. Worthington joined the Worthington Law Centre in 2009. He is a 2005 graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in Modern Literature, and a 2009 graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Since joining the Worthington Law Centre in 2009, Mr. Worthington has maintained an active case load of both felonies and misdemeanors in adult and juvenile courts in Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties. Though he has been an attorney for only a short time, he has handled a number of complex and interesting cases, achieving results very favorable to his clients. A number of those cases, including cases involving complex gang issues, three strikes law, and motivations surrounding false reports of childhood sexual abuse, are chronicled in our "Notable Cases" section. Mr. Worthington was recently interviewed regarding the status of California’s “Three Strikes” law, and a copy of that article can be found here.

Mr. Worthington comes quite naturally to his career as a criminal defense attorney. His childhood was filled with days spent in the courtroom, watching his father, Thomas S. Worthington, and his father’s mentor, James A. Michael, defend cases, while his evenings were often spent at the Worthington Law Centre watching and learning as Mr. Worthington and Mr. Michael planned their defense strategies.

Mr. Worthington began obtaining outstanding results for clients faced with difficult legal issues before he was even an attorney. While a second year law student, Mr. Worthington was assigned a number of cases in his position of “Certified Law Student.” Two of those cases—one involving a 19 year-old Mexican immigrant with mental deficiencies; another involving a man petitioning for relief from the sex offender registration requirement—are reflected in our "Notable Cases" section. In both cases, Mr. Worthington has been contacted by a number of other local attorneys seeking consultation on handling similar issues. In the case of the 19 year old Mexican immigrant, Mr. Worthington wrote a motion to dismiss the case, arguing the District Attorney’s policy of refusing to consider immigration consequences violated both due process and equal protection. With Mr. Worthington’s permission, versions of that brief have been filed by other attorneys in Monterey County Superior Court, California’s Sixth District Court of Appeal, and the Washington State Supreme Court.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Worthington worked for the University of San Francisco Criminal Law and Juvenile Justice Clinic, where he was assigned cases from the San Francisco County Public Defender and managed an active misdemeanor case load. He also held an internship with the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

Mr. Worthington is a member of the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, where he serves on the Board of Governors; the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys; the California Public Defenders Association; the Pacific Juvenile Defender Center; and the Monterey County Bar Association. He is admitted to practice in all California trial courts, the California Court of Appeal-Sixth District, the United States District Court-Northern District of California and the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit.

Mr. Worthington returned to his hometown of Salinas in 2009.