Here's the thing most people get wrong about San Joaquin County: it doesn't run all its criminal cases through one building. Where your case is heard depends on where it happened. Get arrested in Stockton and you're in the county seat downtown. Get arrested in Tracy, Manteca, or Lodi and you may never see Stockton at all, because each of those towns keeps its own branch court that hears local matters. A case filed in Tracy tends to stay in Tracy. That map of who hears what is the first thing to pin down, and getting it wrong costs you a court date.
Karan Saini comes at this from the prosecution side first. He spent his early career at the Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office, where he filed felony charges and tried them in front of juries, before he opened a defense practice. Now, the honest version: he prosecuted in Stanislaus, not here. He won't pretend he was an insider at the San Joaquin DA's office. What he brings across the county line is the read on how any prosecutor's office works — how a filing deputy decides what to charge, where a case is soft, what they'll deal on and what they'll dig in on. That instinct doesn't stop at a county border. Modesto is his home base, and San Joaquin's courts are a short drive north.
The firm works both kinds of trouble that put people in front of these judges. On the criminal side: DUI, domestic violence, drug charges, theft, and the violent felonies that put years on the table. On the injury side: car and truck wrecks, dog bites, slip-and-falls, and the wrongful-death claims insurers drag their feet on. Karan speaks English, Hindi, and Punjabi, and the firm handles cases in Spanish, so you explain what happened in your own words.
Consultations are free. Whatever town in San Joaquin County you were charged or hurt in, call 209-809-1634 before you talk to police or sign whatever an adjuster slides across the table.