Background
Michael Genelin was born in Bronx, New York, and raised in Queens where he attended Personal 36 and Newtown High School.
Michael Genelin was born in Bronx, New York, and raised in Queens where he attended Personal 36 and Newtown High School.
Genelin then moved to Los Angeles where he attended University of California, Los Angeles, earning a Bachelor in Political Science, later attending University of California, Los Angeles School of Law where he earned a Juris Doctorate degree.
Genelin has been involved around the world in Penal Code reform, Anti-Corruption reform in government, including legislative drafting, Ethics Establishment and Training, Freedom of Information laws, Witness Protection Practices, Trial Advocacy, Investigation and Trial of Cases, particularly homicides, Judicial Procedures, Reform and Creation of Evidence Procedures, Human Resources, all aspects of training, including Anti-Corruption Investigation and Prosecution and the general operations of law enforcement/prosecution/criminal court programs, Investigative Journalism Training, and Interactive Governmental Communications. As a Deputy Los Angeles County District Attorney Michael Genelin prosecuted thousands of cases, many of which were in the Los Angeles Hard Core Gang Division. Genelin was chief prosecuter in the murder trial of actor Sal Mineo.
Genelin was also Head of one of three major Trials Divisions in the Los Angeles District Attorney" General’ s Office and created and ran the Career Criminal Division.
As Head Deputy of the Hard Core Gang Division, Genelin supervised the prosecution of all major gang crimes in Los Angeles County, primarily murders. Upon leaving the District Attorney"s office, Genelin began work as an international consultant in government reform, working under the aegis of the American Bar Association, the United States State Department and the United States Agency for International Development, focusing on specific legal issues, primarily as an anti-corruption expert.
Genelin has worked in Tanzania, Nepal, Slovakia, South Sudan and Palestine, as well as other countries.
Genelin has trained hundreds of other prosecutors and members of law enforcement agencies in gang investigation, trial practice and gang crime suppression.