Criminal defense in Bakersfield & Kern County
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The Raimondo Law criminal defense team in Bakersfield, California

135+ criminal jury trials • Bakersfield defense lawyers

You deserve a good lawyer. You can afford a good lawyer.

When your freedom, family, career, or reputation is at risk, hire a defense team with uncommon jury-trial experience—from early investigation through verdict.

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Focused on the person behind the case

Being charged with a crime can stop life as you know it.

The Law Office of Mark Anthony Raimondo understands what you are going through, and the purpose is simple: to give you a second chance at life.

Criminal defense trial attorney Mark Anthony Raimondo
Mark Anthony Raimondo Founder & Criminal Trial Attorney
8,500+ Criminal cases handled Decades of focused criminal-defense work in Kern County
95% Favorable outcomes* Click to see how this figure is calculated
135+ Criminal jury trials From misdemeanor accusations through first-degree murder
75+ Murder cases handled Acquittals, dismissals, reduced verdicts, hung juries, mistrials, and negotiated outcomes

How we calculate favorable outcomes: The 95% figure is based on the firm’s documented concluded criminal matters during the stated review period. A “favorable outcome” means an acquittal, dismissal, charge reduction, sentence reduction, avoidance of a more serious charged consequence, or another material result accepted by the client as beneficial under the circumstances. It does not mean that 95% of cases were dismissed or resulted in acquittal. Every case is different, and past results do not guarantee or predict future results.

Based on documented concluded matters and the firm’s defined methodology. Past results of course do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome.

Awards & recognition

Trial experience recognized locally and nationally.

Professional honors are only one measure of a lawyer. The work still comes down to preparation, communication, and the result pursued for each individual client.

Nation’s Top One Percent award from the National Association of Distinguished Counsel

National recognition

Nation’s Top One Percent

National Association of Distinguished Counsel
Avvo 10.0 Superb rating, top attorney criminal defense badge

Client & peer rating

10.0 Superb

Avvo — Top Attorney, Criminal Defense
10 Best Attorney Client Satisfaction award

Client satisfaction

10 Best Attorney

American Institute of Criminal Law Attorneys
The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 badge

Trial advocacy

Top 100 Trial Lawyers

The National Trial Lawyers

Awards and ratings are based on the issuing organizations’ criteria and do not guarantee a particular outcome.

Vigorously defending

Criminal defense built around the stakes of your case.

Explore the firm’s principal practice areas. Every matter begins with a confidential review of the evidence, exposure, and available defense options.

Criminal defense attorney Mark Anthony Raimondo Mark Anthony Raimondo
Founder & Trial Attorney

Meet Mark Raimondo

A trial lawyer trusted with the hardest days of people’s lives.

Mark Anthony Raimondo earned his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University and his Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law. He has practiced criminal law for more than 25 years in Kern County courts.

His published record includes dismissals, acquittals, reduced charges, favorable plea agreements, and representation across the full range of misdemeanor and felony criminal cases.

Pepperdine Law, J.D. 1998 Rutgers University, B.A. 1995 Former Kern County Bar board member Nation’s Top One Percent, 2015–2026
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Client experiences

Trusted when the stakes were highest.

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4.9 ★★★★★

Published Google rating

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Admissions & professional affiliations

Experience recognized across the legal community.

Decades of criminal-defense work in Kern County are backed by courtroom experience and longstanding connections to the state and federal legal community.

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How the figure is defined

How the 95% favorable-outcomes figure is calculated.

The 95% figure is based on the firm’s documented concluded criminal matters during the stated review period. A “favorable outcome” means an acquittal, dismissal, charge reduction, sentence reduction, avoidance of a more serious charged consequence, or another material result accepted by the client as beneficial under the circumstances.

It does not mean that 95% of cases were dismissed or resulted in acquittal. Every case is different, and past results do not guarantee or predict future results.

Based on documented concluded matters and the firm’s defined methodology. Past results of course do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome.