Jerome (Jerry) McGuire, Esq.

Attorney Of Counsel

Jerome McGuire a 1980 graduate of UC Hastings, has practiced criminal appellate law for over 35 years, achieving many reversals and sentencing reductions across the districts in California. He also was counsel to each of the California Assembly and Senate Committee on Public Safety for about 20 years. He wrote the current law under which exonerated former inmates are guaranteed compensation if found factually innocent by a court. He proposed and wrote the bill that become Proposition 47, which made drug possession a misdemeanor. He was involved in many of the recent reforms of California criminal law, including bail and forfeiture reform, stopping the creation of new felonies and the implementation of harm reduction drug policies. Mr. McGuire swims nearly daily in open water and has fronted a working blues band in Sacramento since about 1990. After leaving the Legislature, he planned on devoting all his time to swimming and music, but Orly Ahrony dragged him back to criminal appellate law.