About me
La Mer Kyle-Griffiths is the Assistant Public Defender at the Santa Barbara County Office of the Public Defender. La Mer has been a lifelong public defender amplifying the voice of the poor in Kentucky, Massachusetts, Washington, Oklahoma and now California. She has litigated at all levels of criminal practice including death penalty trials, post-disposition, and appeals work for children as well as arguing two appeals cases to the Kentucky Supreme court. She has taught investigators, leaders, attorneys, mitigation specialists, and law students for several years in the areas of sentencing, implicit bias, supervision, trial skills, juvenile practice, mitigation, and DNA, among other topics. She has been an adjunct professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, Seattle University College of Law, part of the coaching team for the Boston College Mock trial team, and currently teaches at the National Criminal Defense College, Gideon’s Promise, and Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop. A graduate of the University Of Dayton School Of Law, she has been an innovative advocate and is looking forward to her continuing adventures with Tom, her Chucks-wearing, crusading, capital defender husband, and three daughters who all learned to crow “Acquittal” early!
