The Law Office of Donald E. Landis, Jr.

04/06/2023

Compassionate Release comes to Monterey County -

04/06/2023

It was a good day for justice, compassion, and a little sense of humanity -

04/06/2023

Time to understand, confront, and use AI in the law.

Spellbook uses GPT-3 to review and suggest language for your contracts, right in Microsoft Word.

03/20/2023

Totally gratifying to sit and have dinner with Alex Valliant and his family after trying 5 years through the courts and the Legislature to get him out on PC 1170.91 resentencing relief for veterans.

09/02/2020

Happy to contribute to the conversation on how to obtain social media information for criminal defendants through the subpoena process.

07/23/2018

Nice to work with the ACLU of Northern California to ensure our fair Sheriff upholds his end of State Law regarding immigration.

05/25/2018

More on the Facebook case. Thanks to Jack Newsham at Law360.

The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that social media firms like Facebook and Twitter can be required to give posts users have made public to criminal defendants, a major decision that did not go as far as the defendants sought but could impact thousands of cases.

05/24/2018

Here is the opinion -

05/24/2018

The California Supreme Court just came out with the published decision on Facebook, et.al. v. San Francisco County Superior Court (Hunter) case where I was honored to be the amicus author for California Attorneys for Criminal Justice. A victory of sorts and a complete irony that I get to announce it on Facebook.

http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/disposition.cfm?dist=0&doc_id=2123291&doc_no=S230051&request_token=OCIwLSIkXkw6W1BdSCNNSENIUEA0UDxTICJeRz9TLDtJCg%3D%3D

03/10/2018

With social media evidence increasingly used at criminal trials, do defendants have a constitutional right to subpoena relevant online records while building their case? Don Landis (L/O of Don Landis)