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Richard M. Hirsch
Deputy-in-Charge, Asset Recovery Program
Richard M. Hirsch is a career prosecutor with more than 21 years of experience and is the point person on asset forfeiture issues for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. He has served in LADA’s Training, Major Fraud and Sex Crimes & Child Abuse Divisions and the Bureaus of Branch & Area Operations, Central Operations and Juvenile Operations.
As a member of the Training Division, Hirsch helped train and provide instruction to more than 300 new deputy district attorneys and veteran deputy district attorneys and prosecutors from other California counties. He developed and/or co-developed and coordinated and taught at various training colleges put on by the Training Division, including the Evidence, Fraud, Filing Deputy and Advanced Filing Deputy Colleges. Hirsch has provided instruction on jury selection issues and handling Wheeler motions; evidentiary issues, including hearsay, the Crawford decision, documentary evidence and witness impeachment; preliminary hearings; prosecuting fraud crimes and; preparing for and putting on the prosecution's case-in-chief, including direct examination.
Hirsch has also served as a liaison to the Japanese government regarding its plan to implement a modified jury system in 2009. In this regard, he has instructed and assisted Japanese prosecutors, both in Tokyo and in Los Angeles. Hirsch has drafted legislation to improve the prosecution of state tax fraud cases and co-drafted legislation to ensure the continued viability of the subpoena-of-business-records-by-mail provisions of the Evidence Code. These legislative efforts proved successful, as both the tax fraud and business records provisions were passed into law. Hirsch also spearheaded opposition against efforts to eliminate the California Department of Corporations’ oversight of investments sold to the public.
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