Career Highlights: Elected to the San Diego County Superior Court, 2002; assistant to San Diego Chief of Police, David Bejarano, 1999-2002; deputy city attorney, police legal advisor, San Diego, 1997-1999; head trial deputy city attorney, San Diego, 1994-1997; deputy city attorney, San Diego, 1991-1994
Law School: University of San Diego School of Law
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO - Beside the law degree hanging on Judge Michael T. Smyth's wall, a finger-painted frog stares back across his chambers. Witkin's treatises crowd the top shelf of his bookcase and 1960s vinyl albums line the bottom.
Smyth leans back into his chair, flanked by a guitar and a legal dictionary, casually reciting case law as Frank Sinatra croons softly ... (continued)