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PROFESSIONAL HISTORY OF MARTIN C.
BRHEL, JR.
- Admitted to practice law in California on December 21,
1977
- Private practitioner with emphasis on criminal defense
- Staff Counsel in charge of Los Angeles Legal Office for
Department of Motor Vehicles
- Deputy District Attorney for Riverside County until retirement
from public service in November 2000
Deputy-in-Charge of Indio Municipal Court
Deputy-in-Charge of Palm Springs office
Deputy-in-Charge of Major Narcotic Violator
Program
A Professional Law Corporation
Author
Lecturer
Founder of CourtroomSurvival.comtm
EDUCATION
- Mater Dei High School
- Golden West College (AA)
- California State University@Long Beach (BA)
- Chapman University (Masters degree in progress)
- Western State University College of Law (JD)
OTHER
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- CATCH 55: Courtroom Survival for Traffic Officers-First
Edition
- CATCH 56: Courtroom Survival for DUI Cops-First
Edition
- Courtroom Survival for Small Claims Court
Litigants-First Edition
- HEY DOC COPPER!tm
monthly practical
advice for cops featured in publications such as:
Chief of Police
9-1-1 Magazine
Police
& Security News
Police Times
RSA
News
Instructor for police and prosecutors, on a variety of
subjects, including:
courtroom demeanor
drug
prosecution
search & seizure
CNOA Nominee-Region V Prosecutor of the Year
Palm Springs Police Officers Association Prosecutor of the
Year
Riverside County District Attorney Hawk Award
Who's Who in American Law
Who's Who in California
ORGANIZATIONS (past and
present)
- American Bar Association
- California District Attorneys Association
- California Narcotic Officers Association
- California Republican Party
- California State Bar
- Coachella Valley Lincoln Club
- Crime Control Education Foundation (CCEF)
founder/past-President/CEO
- Crime Control Foundation of America (CCFoA)
founder/past-President/CEO
- Palm Springs Republican Assembly
- Palm Springs Sun-up Rotary
- Republican National Committee
- Riverside County Bar Association
- Riverside County Barristers, past-President
- Riverside Trial Lawyers Association,
past-President
HOBBIES (past and
present)
- Cooking
- Hiking
- Karate
- Lecturing
- Motocross racing (125/250/Open
classes)
- Reading
- Writing
PREVIOUS
ACTIVITIES
- Creator and driving force behind CCEF and
CCFoA.
[NOTE: CCEF
was a non-profit, tax-exempt think tank that identified problem
areas in the criminal justice system and proposed constitutionally
sound, common sense
solutions.
CCFoA was a non-profit
entity that worked hand-in-hand with CCEF. CCFoA sponsored a
number of pieces of proposed legislation. This included AB 264,
which Brhel personally wrote.
AB
264 amended California Health & Safety Code section 11590 and
closed a major hole in drug offender registration.]
- Radio talk show host of Crimefighterstm
(KESQ-AM, KDES-AM, KPSL-AM
CURRENT
ACTIVITIES
- A Professional Law Corporation
- Sole author of all Courtroom Survivaltm
books in progress
- Sole author of all Joshua Traverstm
adventure novels in progress
- Creator of Courtroom Survivaltm Training
for police and prosecutors
- Creator/ sole author of HEY DOC COPPER!tm
- Founder & President of Copper Bible Book Companytm
- Founder & President of CourtroomSurvival.comtm
- Founder & President of The Justice Foundationtm
- Research and advocacy geared toward legislatively improving
public
safety
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