The Law Office of Patrick Thomas Santos

12/30/2021

Happy Holidays.

Sending you greetings over the festive season.

12/18/2021

Welcome to the law office of Patrick Santos.

12/31/2020

A Saturation Point of Servitude: Arguments and Biases on Both Sides Re LA DA Gascon's New Rules.

“There is a saturation point in practically every man’s servitude beyond which every additional hour is wasted and destructive punishment.” ~ Former San Quentin Warden, Clinton Duffy, 1952. What New LA DA Gascon Did On December 7, 2020, Gascon issued a series of "Special Directives" dramatical...

12/30/2020

Death Penalty Reversed: Did Scott Peterson Get off Scot Free? (People v. Peterson (2020) 10 Cal. 5th 409.)

2020 was not all just death, doom, and gloom. For example, the death penalty sentence of Mr. Scott Peterson was reversed in August. Well, that is still gloomy and deathly. Pretty shocking though. In any event, my peers will recall this case clearly: its' gruesome nature, Scott's oddball activities a...

06/20/2020

New laws in the works to solve a major problem we face together.

Landlord versus Tenant: A Landslide of Litigation Is Just Around The Corner.

05/07/2020

If you think a few weeks serving home quarantine is hard, imagine spending 26 years in prison for a crime you did not commit. Mr. Alton Logan did just that. Years after his exoneration in 2009, Mr. Logan co-authored a book about his experience, with investigative reporter, Mr. Berl Falbaum. They rea...

01/27/2020

learn something useful.

Your personal annual update, exclusively for my 700+ current and/or former clients and a few colleagues, on some amazing new California laws here in 2020. Hon. Gov. Newsom signed a lot of new laws, and this is just my own personal selection and favorites. I am confident [...] read more This blog is....

06/06/2019

"Expungement"California Penal Code sections 1203.4 and 1203.4a permit most people convicted of a crime to have their convictions "dismissed", after their

02/09/2019

Huge reversal on appeal this week!!

On February 7, 2019, California's Second District Court of Appeal, Division Six, Justice Gilbert Presiding, reversed a trial court award of $582,000 in attorney...