people ask us all the time why should I hire Wallin & Klarich if I'm accused of corporal injury on a child the answer is simple because we have been extremely successful for over 35 years defending clients accused of this crime the most successful defense is that the parent was using reasonable discipline on his child that is a hard thing for the jury to understand when the prosecution tries to convict a parent of this crime most jurors are parents and they think they should be able to discipline their child on their own but the law in California says you can't impose severe discipline so the best defense in most of our cases is that the parent knows the child best and the child did deserve the punishment and the punishment was not too severe you