Brian Arnold Vogel

I received my Juris Doctorate degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California in 1993. I was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1993. I have been practicing law for nearly 21 years. Following my admission to the California Bar, I was employed as a deputy public defender at the Ventura County Public Defender’s Office and obtained a substantial amount of training and experience in the investigation, preparation and presentation of evidence motion practice, trial planning and practice, and client relations. As a Deputy Public Defender, I was the lead attorney in approximately 70-100 jury trials of which approximately half were felony trials. I represented clients charged with serious crimes including, but not limited to capital murder, rape, robbery, mayhem, kidnaping, assault with a deadly weapon, and complex fraud and embezzlement cases. In addition to practical litigation and trial experience at the Public Defender’s Office, I was exposed to, and learned a great deal about police and sheriff department policies and practices, especially in the Ventura County area. In 1998, I received the Ventura County Criminal Defense Bar Association Crime Lab Crusader Award. This award arose from my role as lead attorney in a criminal case in which hundreds of individual DUI cases were consolidated for special hearings relating to Brady claims and evidentiary issues arising from deficiencies in the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department Crime Lab forensic alcohol program. In 2002, I received the Ventura County Criminal Defense Bar Association Richard Erwin Award which is the equivalent of “Trial Lawyer of the Year” from the defense bar in Ventura County. This award arose from my successful motion to dismiss a capital murder with a rape special circumstance indictment by the Ventura County Grand Jury because the Ventura County Superior Court’s “blue ribbon” grand jury selection procedure resulted in the systematic under representation of wome

Wesleyan Univ

Undergraduate Degree

Loyola Law School

Law Degree

Law Offices of Brian A. Vogel, PC

Current

Mr. Vogel has successfully defended criminal charges ranging from misdemeanor petty theft and DUI to the most serious felonies including capital murder, arson, assault with a deadly weapon, child molestation, kidnapping, carjacking, robbery, and three strikes cases. In selected cases, Mr. Vogel represents the victims of significant police misconduct including wrongful death, the use of excessive force, warrantless searches and arrests, overdetention and deliberate indifference to the serious medical needs of county jail inmates.

Ventura County Criminal Defense Bar Association CLE Lecture

Law Offices of Brian A. Vogel, PC

May, 2009

Ventura College of Law, California Criminal Law Practice

Law Offices of Brian A. Vogel, PC

March, 2007

Richard Erwin Award (Equivalent of "Trial Lawyer of the Year")

Ventura County Criminal Defense Bar Association

2002

Crime Lab Crusader

Ventura County Criminal Defense Bar Association

1998

AV rated

Martindale-Hubbell

2007 National Civil Trial Advocacy Competition held at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Judge

Current

National Police Accountability Project

Member

Current

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Admitted

Current

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Admitted

1995 - Current

California State Bar  # 167413

Member

1993 - Current

California

Since 1993

9th Circuit

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