Kern County Superior Court
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Kern County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2009; deputy district attorney, Kern County, 2000-09; deputy city attorney, Oakland, 1997-2000; associate, Lason & Burnham, Johnson, DeHaas, Fesler & Ames, San Francisco, 1990-92; deputy district attorney, Kern County, 1987-90; associate, Clifford, Jenkins & Brown, Bakersfield, 1986-87
Law School: University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Kern County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2009; deputy district attorney, Kern County, 2000-09; deputy city attorney, Oakland, 1997-2000; associate, Lason & Burnham, Johnson, DeHaas, Fesler & Ames, San Francisco, 1990-92; deputy district attorney, Kern County, 1987-90; associate, Clifford, Jenkins & Brown, Bakersfield, 1986-87
Law School: University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
MOJAVE — The reasons for going to trial have changed a lot since Judge Bryan K. Stainfield’s early days as a prosecutor in the mid-1980s.
“We would go to trial because I wanted five days on a DUI and the defense was offering two days,” he said. “We’d go to trial over that. That’s something that would never go to trial now.”
Especially now with the pandemic, Stainfield said, defendants ar... (continued)
