WIKIPEDIA PAGE http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Leiderman
Jay Leiderman is a criminal defense lawyer based in Ventura, California. Jay was certified as a criminal law specialist by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. The Atlantic Magazine called Leiderman the “Hacktivist’s Advocate” for his work defending hacker-activists accused of computer crimes, or so-called (“Hacktivism”) especially people associated with the hacktivist collective Anonymous.

Leiderman co-authored a book on the legal defense of California medical marijuana crimes, which was published by NORML, the National Organization For the Reform of Marijuana Laws. He is also a founding member of the Whistleblower’s Defense League, “formed to combat what they describe as the FBI and Justice Department’s use of harassment and over-prosecution to chill and silence those who engage in journalism, Internet activism or dissent.” Leiderman frequently comments in diverse areas of the media about criminal and social justice issues. He also lectures around the state and nation on various criminal defense topics.
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Here are some profiles of Jay Leiderman and quotes from news stories:

From: On the Defense of Criminals, an essay by Jay Leiderman http://jayleiderman.blogspot.com/2013/01/on-defense-of-criminals-essay-by-jay.html
The link below is a profile of Jay Leiderman done by the Atlantic Weekly Magazine with a quote from the piece: “We have an opportunity here to make the courts, as these cases wind their way up, understand privacy issues, emerging tech issues, against the backdrop of civil rights and through the prism of free information.”
From: Hacktivist’s Advocate: Meet the Lawyer Who Defends Anonymous http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/hacktivists-advocate-meet-the-lawyer-who-defends-anonymous/263202/
This is a profile of Jay Leiderman done by the Ventura County Star: Ventura attorney represents high-profile hackers in a red-hot area of the law
‘Find the best defense attorney you can
‘Hackers being prosecuted under the CFAA don’t just need digital experts; they need good defense against a law vague enough to encompass most anything http://www.cjr.org/cloud_control/lawyers_hacker_call_part_2.php?page=all
“Investigators like to wave around the word ‘gang.’ They use it to strike fear in the heart of the community. It tends to also involve a lot of puffery and allegations that maybe perhaps aren’t 100 percent solid,” Leiderman said.
From: Police say Mexican Mafia prison gang led crime ring in Ventura County http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/nov/27/one-man-led-large-prison-crime-ring-in-ventura/?print=1

From: The Los Angeles Times feature: Could this be happening? A man’s nightmare made real
“The warrant did not give the power to rummage through the journalist’s files,” Leiderman said, adding “there is no indication of why all this information needed to be seized”.
From: Federal agents accused of unwarranted search through journalist’s computer http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/29/matthew-keys-investigation-hacker-computer-search
“The days of ‘Let’s haul this kid in front of the judge, scare him and send him home with a warning’ are long since gone,” says attorney Jay Leiderman. “Prosecutorial discretion is a great thing if it’s exercised, but it doesn’t happen in any meaningful way these days, because prosecutions are so politicized.”
From: Is former Sacramento media employee Matthew Keys a victim of overzealous, misguided cybercrime prosecution?
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“He is a good person. He did a bad thing,” Leiderman told the judge.
From: Santa Paula man gets probation for drunken-driving crash that killed fellow officer
“I’m not saying we’re in a police state,” Leiderman says when talking about the restrictions, “but it sure looks like it when you evaluate the system of pretrial release.”
From: Anon on the run: How Commander X jumped bail and fled to Canada
“Based upon this case, the government’s new position is that you are required to be clairvoyant in terms of determining what a protected computer is and what a non protected one is,” he tells me. “From now on you have to be a psychic…because if it isn’t password protected but it’s a ‘protected computer’ you’re potentially going to be found guilty.”
From: We Are Weev
Information is the new currency
Information is the new aphrodisiac
Information is the new high.
He who controls the information controls your world.
And your government knows it.
From: A speech at a benefit for arrested activists
“Hack has become a sort of all-encompassing term, when in fact some of this was social engineering, some of this was good old-fashioned regular ‘there’s a hole, I’m going to walk through it’,” said Leiderman. “If you left your front door open people wouldn’t really call it a break-in. To some extent Stratfor were unsecure to the point where it was like their front door was open and Mr Hammond allegedly, with some others, walked right in, and people are calling it a hack. “As far as I’m aware, nothing was really hacked in the classic sense,” he added.
From: Analysis: a case of government versus hacktivism