Law Office of Tyler R. Smith, PC

Law Office of Tyler R. Smith, PC Trial lawyer, focusing on wills and trusts litigation, and criminal defense. My practice focuses on criminal defense, and civil rights actions. weight class. Mr.

Education
Tyler Smith received his J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law in 2012, where he was the Executive Articles Editor for the Law Review, published a Comment on the Fourth Amendment vis-à-vis GPS tracking on vehicles, and was heavily involved in the school’s litigation program. He earned his undergraduate degree in Sociology, with a minor in Economics, from Duke University in 2003.

While there, he also competed on the Duke’s Division I wrestling program at the 165 lb. Background and Experience
Mr. Smith represented Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, along with J. Tony Serra, and Curtis Briggs, in a two-and-a-half month long federal trial, against false allegations of murder and racketeering, among other charges. During the trial, Mr. Smith cross-examined six FBI agents, and the Government’s tong expert. Smith has also represented ma*****na growers in a variety of capacities, including helping them circumnavigate criminal charges, and avoid being needlessly dragged into others' charges. He is also involved in civil rights actions in federal courts. He represented a disabled, homeless veteran, who was brutally beaten by a San Francisco Sheriff’s Deputy, and he most recently represented two women who were r***d in jail by a correctional officer in Montana. All his civil rights cases successfully settled. Prior to joining Pier 5 Law Offices, Mr. Smith worked on medical device products liability cases, personal injury actions, and on whistleblower actions against fraudulent healthcare actors. Publications
"Reasonable Suspicion Plus": A Framework to Address Chief Judge Alex Kozinski's Concerns of Mass Surveillance Without Compromising Police Effectiveness, 42 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. (2012). http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/ggulrev/vol42/iss1/7

https://www.heislerrosenfeldlaw.comICYMI - I’m now with Heisler Rosenfeld LLP! We do estate planning (wills and trusts) ...
05/19/2023

https://www.heislerrosenfeldlaw.com

ICYMI - I’m now with Heisler Rosenfeld LLP! We do estate planning (wills and trusts) and trusts & estates litigation (elder abuse, undue influence).

I’m excited for this new chapter, and very grateful to Rachel LeGaux and Lara Heisler for having me on board!

I’ll still be doing criminal defense work as well.

Heisler Rosenfeld LLP is a law firm specializing in estate planning, trust administration, and all aspects of probate and estate litigation, including conservatorships and guardianships. Located in Walnut Creek and serving Contra Costa, Alameda and Solano counties.

10/01/2021

I don’t know how but Tony Serra and I somehow managed to get a NOT GUILTY verdict on the 1st degree murder charge our client was facing. We’ve been in this San Jose 4-co-D gang trial since June!

They did find him guilty of 2nd degree murder, but he could be out in 6 years.

Jury hung on all other charges (strongly in favor of our guy), including the robbery, assault and all the gang enhancements and gang charge. The DA must’ve spent 2 weeks alone on all the gang evidence.

2 of the 3 other co-Ds also went down on 2nd. DA was fuming when the verdict was read. 😄

04/28/2021

San Mateo County DA will be dismissing all 11 bogus felony arson and insurance fraud counts against my client!

There’s a lot going on behind the scenes these days. Trial preparation in TWO murder cases, dozens of weekly appearances...
09/01/2020

There’s a lot going on behind the scenes these days. Trial preparation in TWO murder cases, dozens of weekly appearances on my misdemeanor cases, 5-10 calls a day from San Quentin inmates, and today I’m substituting in on a 40-felony-count attempted murder case.

I love what I do!

08/19/2020

My client was facing 21 years. We took a plea for 1 year in county jail this morning.

That’s a W! 🤟

Got my client’s felony reduced to a misdemeanor and another charge dismissed. He was facing 7 years, but today’s plea me...
10/29/2019

Got my client’s felony reduced to a misdemeanor and another charge dismissed. He was facing 7 years, but today’s plea means he gets to walk out of jail to his !

My quote here needs some elaboration: If Mayor Schaaf and the DAs claim that city officials can’t be blamed bc they “wer...
08/02/2019

My quote here needs some elaboration: If Mayor Schaaf and the DAs claim that city officials can’t be blamed bc they “weren’t trained” to recognize the fire code violations, then how on Earth should 26 year old artist Max Harris be expected to recognize it? Criminally negligent of him not to?! I don’t think so. Not guilty based on that alone.

A jury ended its first full day of deliberation Thursday without reaching a verdict in the trial of two men facing 36 involuntary manslaughter charges for the 2016 fire at Oakland's Ghost Ship warehouse, according to CNN affiliate KGO.

It's an honor to work on this case with Curtis Briggs and Tony Serra.
03/18/2019

It's an honor to work on this case with Curtis Briggs and Tony Serra.

As the news of Gov. Newsom's moratorium rippled through the prison, one inmate says there were no celebrations, no cheers among the 737 condemned men on the largest death row in the United States

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