Jamestown is a small Gold Country town just south of Sonora on Highway 49, known as the gateway to the Mother Lode and home to the steam trains at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park. What it doesn't have is its own courthouse. If you're arrested in Jamestown, the case doesn't stay in town. It goes to the Tuolumne County Superior Court at 12855 Justice Center Drive in Sonora, a few minutes up the road, where every criminal matter in the county is heard. Knowing that before your first appearance is worth more than it sounds.
Karan Saini is a former prosecutor, and he's straight about where that history comes from. He grew up in Modesto and tried felony cases at the Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office before he ever stood up for the defense. Tuolumne County is a different county, about fifty minutes east of Modesto, but a prosecutor's instincts carry across the line. Karan reads a charging decision the way the people who file them do, because he used to be one of them, and that's the read he brings to a Jamestown case in the Sonora court.
The firm covers both the criminal and the injury side. On criminal: DUI, domestic violence, drug cases, theft, and serious violent felonies. On injury: car crashes along Highway 49 and the surrounding county roads, dog bites, falls, and wrongful-death claims an insurer would rather settle quietly. A small town doesn't make a case small. The penalties attached to a felony in Jamestown are the same ones attached to it anywhere else.
Karan speaks English, Hindi, and Punjabi, and the firm offers services in Spanish, so the conversation happens in your own words. Consultations are free. If you're facing charges or were hurt by someone else's carelessness in Jamestown, call 209-809-1634 before you talk to police or sign anything an adjuster gives you.