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About Lawyer Ronald Hedding

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I have now been defending sex crimes since the early 1990s. I started getting a complete view of a criminal sex crime when I worked for the District Attorney's office in East Los Angeles. Then I shifted over and began to work for a Superior Court Judge as his research attorney. This initial experience was invaluable in figuring out how to (1) defend sex crimes and (2) negotiate sex crime cases.

You have to realize that the District Attorney's office in Los Angeles and many surrounding counties in California are like a corporation. It has a power structure. You have the prosecutor in charge of a particular case, and then you have leadership above that prosecuting attorney. So, the leadership will consist of supervisors, assistant head deputies, and then the entire power structure of the DA's office.

When it comes to some of these more serious sex crime cases, understanding how the hierarchy of a DA's office works is crucial in negotiating and resolving these cases. Many of the more serious sex crime cases that I've handled over the years will not be resolved through discussions with the prosecutor assigned to the point. The reason for that is that the prosecutor does not have the authority to make an offer to settle the case.