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Edward Torrence is
an attorney licensed to practice law before all courts of the
State of California as well as the Federal Courts of the
Southern District and Central District of California. He has
also been certified to practice in all Military Courts of the
United States Armed Forces. Mr. Torrence was
educated at California State University, Fullerton, California
where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science.
He received his legal education at Pepperdine University
School of Law, earning a Juris Doctor degree. He
also received specialized military law training at the Naval
Justice School, Newport, Rhode Island. Mr. Torrence
performed a Professional Internship working for the Office of
the District Attorney for the County of Orange, California.
He served as Special Assistant United States Attorney for the
Central District of California for three years. He
served as a Commissioned Naval Officer in the Judge Advocate
General's Corps (JAG) until his retirement in 1994. As a
Judge Advocate, he served as both a prosecutor and defense
counsel in hundreds of courts-martial, Boards of Inquiry and
administrative separation hearings. His cases included
homicide, rape, arson, larceny, interstate trafficking of
pornography, fraud and computer based crimes.
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As a prosecutor, he won guilty
verdicts in 100% of his cases.
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As a defense counsel, he
received acquittals in a number of high profile Courts-martial
including a dual defendant, dual jury rape case and a larceny
case with five alleged "eye witnesses" and an alleged
confession.
Mr. Torrence
established his private practice in September 1994, limiting
his criminal law practice to Driving Under the Influence (DUI)
and driving related cases. He has been successful in
applying his experience as a prosecutor and military defense
attorney to these cases in both state and federal courts.
In addition to having obtained reduction of charges for a
number of clients, he has obtained outright dismissals of
charges in a number of cases in both state and federal courts.
He has also been successful in defending many of his clients'
right to drive, in Department of Motor Vehicles hearings
alleging blood alcohol levels above the legal limit. |
