Sara Coppin was awarded her B.A. with Crown College Honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she majored in Women's Studies and Cultural Anthropology. After working for eight years in magazine and book publishing, including three years as the production manager of Mother Jones Magazine, she returned to school to get a J.D. from Hastings College of the Law. While at Hastings, Sara focused on criminal defense and was Publications Editor of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. As a California Bar Certified Law Student for her last two years of law school, she represented misdemeanor defendants in Placer and Marin Counties. After graduating from Hastings with a focus in Public Interest Law, she worked at the Office of the State Public Defender of California on capital habeas cases. She came to the Law Office of Robert Jobe with an interest in the intersection of criminal law and immigration. In addition to deportation defense, Sara currently represents immigrants seeking post conviction relief in the California courts. Sara was counsel in People v. Akhile (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 558, in which the California Court of Appeals held that immigration warnings delivered to a criminal defendant by the trial court pursuant to Cal. Penal Code § 1016.5 must be delivered at the time the plea is entered. She is a native of Northern California, a country girl at heart, and currently lives in Oakland with her dog Lola.