Matthew Rifat, as his own attorney, wrote in the final brief for the California Bar trial, that Matthew the client studied numerous motions.

These motions were filed in the Los Angeles District Attorney’s 2015 Indictment cases charging the “Criminal Organization Munir Uwaydah”.  So, he studied them.

Matthew asserted these motions showed fatal weaknesses in the criminal cases and serious prosecutorial misconduct.

This writer sat through more than 95 percent of these court proceedings and did not witness fatal weaknesses in these criminal cases.  There were weaknesses, counts that were hard to definitively prove and lacked sufficient evidence, and consequently got dismissed; but there were generally not, overall, fatal weaknesses.  To describe the overall case as fatally weak or any weaknesses as fatal to the entire case is an exaggeration of a few isolated weaknesses.  There were counts that were good charges but could not be argued to be beyond a reasonable doubt.  

And to cite serious prosecutorial misconduct is false in its entirety.  Certainly, the prosecution made mistakes; they didn’t perform certain procedures as well as they should; yes, they got scolded by the judge Kathleen Kennedy. But these... Read More

Here’s continuing with Matthew Rifat’s final closing argument brief.   It’s long. 

He’s representing himself here in his case with the State Bar of California. He’s defending... Read More