Terence Hallinan
| Terence Hallinan | |
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| District Attorney of San Francisco | |
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In office 1996–2004 |
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| Preceded by | Arlo Smith |
| Succeeded by | Kamala Harris |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 4, 1936 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley London School of Economics UC Hastings College of the Law |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Terence Hallinan (born December 4, 1936) is an American attorney and politician from San Francisco, California. He is the second of six sons born to Progressive Party presidential candidate Vincent Hallinan and his wife Vivian. Hallinan was educated at the London School of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He currently works in private practice in San Francisco.
Hallinan grew up in a 22-room mansion in Ross, California. At age twelve Hallinan fell off his horse, fractured his skull, and spent five days stranded outside Yosemite before being rescued by helicopter.
As a young man Hallinan developed, in the words of California Supreme Court Justice Raymond Peters, a “habitual and continuing resort to fisticuffs to settle personal differences.” Hallinan became a ward of juvenile court in 1954 when he took a case of beer from three sailors after he and his brother had run them off the road on Point Reyes and beat them. The juvenile court banned Hallinan from Marin County so he had to get a job in a warehouse in Sacramento before clerking for the Longshoremen's Union in Hawaii. Shortly after turning eighteen Hallinan pleaded guilty to battery for punching the proprietor of a Lake County ski lodge. In 1957 Hallinan punched a fraternity brother who denied him admission to a private party. Hallinan was indicted in 1959 after he broke a man’s jaw during a brawl at a Greenbrae bowling alley. While at UC Berkeley Hallinan boxed for the Golden Bears and sparred with Cassius Clay in the 1960 Olympic boxing team eliminations. Due to a perceived skill at knockouts he went by the name “Kayo” Hallinan.
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