California Criminal Discovery

Brian M. Hoffstadt is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal. Prior to this position, he served as a judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, a partner at Jones Day, an Assistant United States Attorney, a legal policy advisor for the U.S. Department of Justice, and a law clerk to former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and former Ninth Circuit Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall. As a result of these experiences, he has tried, presided over, or reviewed hundreds of criminal cases.

Justice Hoffstadt has also taught and written extensively. He is on the faculty of the B.E. Witkin Judicial College, and has lectured judges and justices around the State of California on criminal discovery, evidence, domestic violence law, habeas corpus, and other criminal and civil law subjects. He currently teaches as an adjunct law professor at the University of Southern California Law School and has in the past taught at Loyola Law School, and the George Washington University Law School. Justice Hoffstadt has published articles in several leading law journals (including the Duke Law Journal, the Texas Law Review, the Northwestern Law Review), and is a regular contributor to the Daily Journal. He is also a member of the American Law Institute.