2nd District Court of Appeal (Los Angeles)
Career Highlights: Named dean of Western State College of Law at Westcliff University; neutral, Signature Resolution; Associate Justice, Second District of the California Court of Appeal; Judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court; deputy district attorney, Los Angeles County. After retiring from the bench, Dhanidina was a partner at Umberg Zipser in Irvine and Werksman Jackson and Quinn in Los Angeles and adjunct professor at various Southern California law schools.
Signature Resolution
Career Highlights: Named dean of Western State College of Law at Westcliff University; neutral, Signature Resolution; Associate Justice, Second District of the California Court of Appeal; Judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court; deputy district attorney, Los Angeles County. After retiring from the bench, Dhanidina was a partner at Umberg Zipser in Irvine and Werksman Jackson and Quinn in Los Angeles and adjunct professor at various Southern California law schools.
Signature Resolution
LOS ANGELES — When Justice Halim Dhanidina was prosecuting a murder case once, the defense attorney told the jury, “The prosecutor’s view of mercy is different from all of our views. Maybe that’s because he’s from a different tradition.”
Dhanidina, now the highest ranking Muslim jurist in the nation since his elevation last year to the 2nd District Court of Appeal, recalled he was too stunned to object and the judge did ... (continued)
