Education
Levine, who graduated from Loyola Law School, has worked as a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County since 1991.
Levine, who graduated from Loyola Law School, has worked as a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County since 1991.
He is best known for helping to popularize, the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israel Defense Forces. The same year, Levine and his detectives built a case against Gerald Mason, who had evaded arrest since 1957 for the rape of a teenage girl, the assault of three other teenagers, and the murder of two police officers. Mason was sentenced to life imprisonment, ending one of the longest unsolved cases in the United States.
As of September 2007, he has a 100% conviction rate.
He has been a recipient of several honors from district attorney groups and victim’s rights groups. In 1981, Levine was selected as part of the first group outside of Israel to train in In 1982, Lichtenfeld traveled to Los Angeles to stay with Levine and continue his training.
Levine is one of only two recipients of a Founder’s Diploma awarded by Lichtenfeld before his death in 1998. At the time, Levine was the highest ranking instructor in the United States, and had training centers in West Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, and Philadelphia.
Levine holds a 6th degree black belt in the Darren Levine is the co-author with John Whitman and Ryan Hoover of Complete, Black Belt, and for Beginners.