SANGER, HANLEY, SANGER & AVILA
A LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP
Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Maria, CA
Sarah S. Sanger
Partner, Civil and Criminal Appeals and Writs
Sarah Sanger is a Civil and Criminal Appeals and Writs Attorney with the firm working on criminal defense matters in both the state and federal courts primarily involving capital cases.
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Ms. Sanger graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in Philosophy. She attended the University of California, Berkeley School of Law where she did graduate work in philosophy while obtaining her law degree. Ms. Sanger clerked for the Office of the State Public Defender in Oakland, working on capital murder cases and worked for the Los Angeles Public Defender’s Office in their Van Nuys and Burbank branches.
Ms. Sanger is on the Executive Committee of California Attorneys for Criminal Justice and is a member of the FORUM Magazine committee and the Amicus Committee. She is also the Program Co-Chair for the Jurisprudence Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. She is fluent in conversational Spanish and French. She reads Arabic and Ancient Greek.