Career Highlights
People v. Hernandez: Client shot a man six times in a crowded Target parking lot. Client was with his wife and child, and the victim was with his daughter. Victim survived. Client faced charges carrying a term of 35 years-to-life. The offer by the People was 29 years. Steve Levine convinced the jury that the shooting was in the "heat of passion," and the jury agreed. Client received 18 years, which Steve Levine was able to reduce to 10 years based on a motion he wrote after the California sentencing laws changed, in the wake of the United States Supreme Court's Cunningham decision.




