The eight-lawyer Pleasant Hill firm — which is staffed by several cops who became attorneys — represents officers in internal disciplinary cases and in criminal trials. While Rains, Lucia handles a range of legal work for police unions, it’s the criminal trials — which are primarily handled by name partner Michael Rains — that get the most attention.
Rains, Lucia was on the legal team that persuaded jurors in 2000 to acquit eight Corcoran State Prison guards accused of violating prisoners’ rights, and Rains represented a prison guard who shot an inmate involved in the case. Rains also defended a Santa Clara County deputy sheriff who was sentenced last week in a sexual battery case. And his firm is representing two rookie Oakland police officers who accidentally shot and killed an undercover cop in a lawsuit filed by the dead man’s family.
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