Biography
Pete Harned, the principal and founder of the firm, graduated with a Juris Doctorate from Lincoln
Law School of Sacramento in 1985 with Valedictorian honors. His undergraduate program was at
California State University, Sacramento, where he studied criminal justice.

He is an experienced former prosecutor and senior litigator from the Office of the Sacramento
County District Attorney, where he successfully prosecuted, over a period of eleven years,
hundreds of cases involving homicide, robbery, assault, burglary, rape, child molestation and
narcotics possession and sales. He also worked in the intelligence division of the California
Department of Justice for several years prior to joining the Sacramento District Attorney's Office in
1985.

Mr. Harned opened his own firm in 1996, and has actively and successfully defended persons
charged with serious criminal offenses in the Sacramento and surrounding areas.
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