California Bar #279776 and a magna cum laude JD from Thomas Jefferson School of Law back Stefano L. Molea, Esq., a Hillcrest criminal defense partner at 2550 Fifth Avenue Suite 1050 who sits on the board of directors of the San Diego Criminal Defense Bar Association. The practice runs the full misdemeanor-to-serious-felony spectrum — theft, fraud, DUI, drug possession, vehicular manslaughter, robbery, aggravated mayhem, sex crimes, and murder — overlapping at first-appearance calendars with California Criminal Defense Center - 800 D.U.I. KING. Italian-born attorneys bring fluent Italian, Spanish, and English intake into attorney-client meetings for defendants whose primary language is not English. Penal Code 1538.5 suppression-of-evidence motions and Section 995 motions to dismiss at preliminary hearing are signature workload items, an emphasis that mirrors the motion-heavy approach used at Lieberman Law, APC on complex defense matters. Memberships on California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, the California Public Defenders Association, and the National College for DUI Defense keep the practice current on Fourth Amendment developments in search-warrant affidavit challenges. A recent federal case with a 10-year mandatory-minimum exposure reduced to one year of home confinement and supervised release illustrates the sentencing-mitigation workload the office takes on at its high end.