Solano County Criminal Defense Attorneys

Barry K. Newman

Barry K. Newman is a founding member of the Criminal Defense Law Firm of Newman & Oldwin.  Mr. Newman is a native Californian with over 25 years of legal practice experience. He is a dedicated criminal defense trial lawyer who takes prides in being an active participant of the legal community.  Mr. Newman has been rated by fellow attorneys as a highly ethical.  His legal ability has been rated very high.

Mr. Newman is a member of the adjunct faculty at California State University, Sacramento, teaching law related courses.  He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1982.  Mr. Newman is a member of the Solano County Bar Association, the California Attorneys For Criminal Justice, and the California Public Defenders Association.

Education

• University of California at Riverside, B.A., 1977
• California Western School of Law; University of California at Davis, J.D., 1982

Leonard E. Oldwin, Jr.

For more than twenty years, Leonard E. Oldwin, Jr. has stopped at nothing, except ethics, to defend his criminal law clients—whether fighting charges of murder or violation of local ordinances.

Known for his creative and confrontational legal work, Mr. Oldwin's rigorous legal research, his novel arguments, and his extensive knowledge of criminal trial and appellate law, as well as the prison and mental health systems, has won him the respect of both criminal defense colleagues and his adversaries.

Mr. Oldwin has defended numerous felonies and misdemeanor cases, including death penalty cases, murders, rapes, child sexual assault cases, prisoner's rights cases, and drug and alcohol offenses. His reputation for "taking cases to the mat" is unparallelled.

Bar Admissions

• California, 1987

Professional Memberships

• Solano County Bar Asociation
• California Attorneys For Criminal Justice
• California Public Defenders Association

Education

• Western Carolina University, B.S., 1984
• McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, J.D., 1987