Michael Molfetta

Michael A. Molfetta - Biography Michael A. Molfetta is a Veteran Criminal Defense Attorney who has represented defendants in more than 300 jury trials ranging from death penalty, homicide, complex white-collar crimes, DUI, drug crimes, mortgage and investment fraud, domestic violence, gang crimes, vehicular manslaughter, sex crimes, and environmental crimes. He approaches every case with the same intensity regardless of whether the case is a misdemeanor or a felony. Mr. Molfetta has appeared as a legal correspondent on numerous networks including ABC’s World News Tonight, and as a legal analyst during the prosecution of Kobe Bryant and Scott Peterson. He also appeared on Larry King Live, Nancy Grace, Dateline, 20/20, and Geraldo Rivera. Mr. Molfetta’s cases have also been the subject of several novels including Caitlyn Rother’s “Dead Reckoning”. Mr. Molfetta became a Deputy District Attorney with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office in 1991. As a prosecutor, he was assigned to several trial positions including the Domestic Violence Unit (currently known as the Family Protection Unit), and the Gang Unit. Mr. Molfetta tried over 100 cases a prosecutor and was named “1994 Prosecutor of the Year”. Mr. Molfetta left the District Attorney’s Office in the summer of 1996 to join the firm Turner, Cooper, and Reynolds. After a brief stint as a civil litigator, Mr. Molfetta returned to the practice of criminal law in 1997 as a criminal defense attorney and has since dedicated his career to representing clients charged with committing criminal offenses. His client list is diverse and includes corporations, officers and board members of corporations, professional athletes, judges, police officers, lawyers, and doctors. Mr. Molfetta has secured "Not Guilty" verdicts in 9 of 12 felony trials in the last two years and in the remaining cases, was able to significantly reduce his clients' charges.