About Mike Marrinan

Mike Marrinan is an attorney in private practice in San Diego, focusing on police misconduct and civil rights.

Mike began his career as a trial attorney with Defenders Inc., the equivalent of a public defender office, from 1980 – 1985. This is where Mike honed his trial skills, handling hundreds of criminal cases, including all types of serious felonies.

Many of Mike’s most memorable trials were cases where his clients had been beaten or abused by police officers, yet were inevitably charged with crimes such as assault on an officer and resisting arrest. Mike took many of those cases to trial, often resulting in acquittals for his clients.

In 1985, Mike entered private practice and joined noted civil rights/criminal defense attorney Tom Adler, who was one of the very few attorneys in San Diego handling police abuse cases at the time.