Seth Morris | Berkeley Criminal Defense Lawyer

Case Results

MURDER CHARGE DISMISSED MURDER An Alameda County man was charged with murder for shooting and killing another man at point blank range in the chest. After Seth Morris was able to show the District Attorney’s Office that his client acted in lawful self-defense, his case was dismissed before the preliminary hearing. The outcome of an individual case depends on a variety of factors unique to that case. Case results do not guarantee or predict a similar result in any similar or future case.

April 22, : NBC Bay Area interviewed Seth in a special investigation report on local police’s use and misuse of body cameras. Part 2 of 2. Link here

2016

Feb 11, : NBC Bay Area interviewed Seth in a special investigation report on local police’s use and misuse of body cameras. Part 1 of 2. Link here.

2016

November 6, : Guest speaker on the Body Camera Panel at The Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal symposium entitled: “21st Century Civil Rights: Community Empowerment Police Reform.”

2015

September 29, : Guest Lecturer at Professor Nikki Jones’ class at UC Berkeley in the Dept of African American studies discussing race, poverty, and the crisis of mass incarceration in the criminal justice system.

2015

July 15, : Seth was interviewed by Brendan Bartholomew for his SF Examiner piece regarding the lack of a public defender’s office in San Mateo County.

2015

July 9, : KQED (local NPR affiliate) aired a piece Seth wrote about the importance of public defenders in the conversation about police misconduct in local communities.

2015

May 18, : The U.S. Dept. of Justice rolled out its national Toolkit on the use of police body cameras. Seth was interviewed and featured on the site, offering the public defender’s perspective on the use of body cameras.

2015

February 26–27, : Seth was flown to Washington, D.C. by the Dept. of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to speak on their Expert Panel on the topic of body cameras.

2015

February 11, : Seth was interviewed by Robert Gammon for his East Bay Express article “OPD’s War on the Poor Needs to End.”

2015

February 8, : Seth wrote a Letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe Magazine, thanking them for their piece “Defending those accused of unthinkable crimes” by Scott Helman (original article here).

2015

February 4, : Seth was a guest on KALW’s Your Call for a show entitled Should Police Wear Body Cameras?

2015

February 3, : “23 Years After Rodney King, Victims of Police Violence Get Even Less Justice,” by Seth Morris, published by Vanity Fair.

2015

January 20, : “Supreme Court’s police debacle: How it quietly helped cops prey on poor people” by Seth Morris. Published on Salon.

2015

December 11, : “Public defender: I could get indictments in Garner, Brown cases.” Appearance on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.

2014

December 8, : “It would have been very simple to indict Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo. Here’s how.” By Seth Morris. Published in the Washington Post.

2014