Practice
What the firm handles
- Homicide and violent felonies
- Murder, attempted murder, and gang-enhanced allegations, including multi-defendant matters — from the preliminary hearing through trial.
- Sex offenses
- Rape, child molestation, and lewd act allegations, including charges that carry life exposure and lifetime sex offender registration.
- General Felonies
- Representation from arraignment and bail through preliminary hearing, suppression motions, mental health diversion motions, negotiation, and trial.
- Misdemeanors
- Full defense of misdemeanor charges, including jury trial.
- Expungement and record relief
- Clearing eligible convictions and arrests so they no longer appear on rap sheets.
About
George P. Kadifa
George Kadifa has been a criminal defense attorney for more than seven years. He learned the work in public defender offices, first as an intern in the Contra Costa, New York County, and Marin Public Defender Offices, then as a Deputy Public Defender in Kern County.
He established his own firm in 2022 and serves on the criminal conflict panels in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties.
His practice includes homicide and serious sex offense defense. He has represented clients facing gang homicide, murder, attempted murder, and sexual assault allegations.
He speaks conversational Levantine Arabic and working-level French. He has written for Just Security, the San Jose Mercury News, and the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, where he served as Senior Book Annotations Editor.
- Practice
- The Law Firm of George P. Kadifa — sole practitioner, since 2022
- Panels
- Criminal conflict panels — San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties
- Law
- New York University School of Law — J.D., 2018
- Undergraduate
- University of California, Berkeley — B.A., Political Economy, 2013
- Admitted
- California, 2018 · State Bar No. 325680
District of Columbia, 2024 · D.C. Bar No. 90025910 - Languages
- English · Levantine Arabic (conversational) · French (working)
Results
Notable Results
- Client facing first-degree murder charges, murder caught on video
- Murder charge dismissed.
- Client facing life in prison on a robbery charge
- Robbery charge dismissed.
- Client with a sawed-off assault rifle in the back of his car
- Case dismissed.
- Client found with 30 grams of cocaine and a gun in his mother's house
- Case dismissed.
- Client facing multiple assault charges
- Case dismissed.
- Client caught speeding while severely intoxicated
- Case dismissed.
- Client accidentally fired a gun through the ceiling of his home, bruising his upstairs neighbor
- Case dismissed.
- Client caught on camera stealing a large quantity of merchandise from a store
- Jury acquitted of the felony.
- Client alleged to have confessed to driving while intoxicated
- Jury acquitted.
- Client entered jail with a bag of methamphetamine in his pocket
- Jury acquitted of the felony.
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- Client facing life in prison after video shows him firing two shots at an unarmed man
- Jury hung.
- Client found with 30 grams of methamphetamine and four baggies on his person
- Jury hung.
- Client facing 33 charges of drugs, theft, and fraud
- Sixteen counts dismissed, one count acquitted, and nine counts hung, including the only strike.
- Client alleged to have assaulted a man, seen on video taking the keys to his truck
- Robbery charge dismissed; jury hung on assault charge.
- Client alleged to be the getaway driver in three armed robberies
- Mental health diversion granted.
- Client facing 8 years in prison for assaulting a man in custody, assault caught on video
- Mental health diversion granted.
- Client alleged to have participated in a smash-and-grab of a jewelry store
- Mental health diversion granted.
- Client alleged to have committed multiple burglaries and thefts, with an extensive criminal history
- Mental health diversion granted.
- Client alleged to have smashed a glass bottle over a man's head in a grocery store
- Mental health diversion granted.
- Client alleged to have severely vandalized a car
- Mental health diversion granted.
- Client facing life in prison on burglary and criminal threats charges
- Case resolved as a misdemeanor.
- Client pulled over with a gun in the car
- Charge reduced to a misdemeanor.
- Client headed overseas, stopped at SFO with a suitcase full of marijuana
- Case resolved as a misdemeanor.
- Client headed to the East Coast, stopped at SFO with a suitcase full of marijuana
- Case resolved as a misdemeanor.
- Mother of three serving jail time for a DUI causing great bodily injury
- Judge agreed to release her early to care for her diabetic son.
Every case is different. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
The first 48 hours
What to do before you do anything else
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Stop talking about the case.
Not to police, not to a cellmate, not on a recorded jail line, not on social media. The right to remain silent only works if you use it.
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Write down what you remember.
Names, times, what was said, who was present. Detail fades quickly, and what you recall in week one is worth more than what you recall in month three.
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Do not miss a court date.
A missed appearance turns a manageable case into a bench warrant and a new charge. If you do not know your next date, call and the firm will find it.
Contact
Reach the firm
- Phone
- (650) 382-2547
- gpkadifa@gmail.com
- Office
- 333 Bradford Street, Suite 190
Redwood City, CA 94063 - Hours
- Monday–Friday, 9–5
and by appointment - Languages
- Spanish-speaking staff available
Se habla español
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