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Government,
Criminal

Dec. 26, 2018

New LA County public defender said he was defined by two early cases

Ricardo D. Garcia touts a collaborative, holistic approach to defending clients.

New LA County public defender said he was defined by two early cases
Los Angeles County Public Defender Ricardo D. Garcia

LOS ANGELES — Ricardo D. Garcia looks out the window of his 19th floor office overlooking the sprawling urban landscape of Los Angeles, remembering the cases that defined him. And they’re not the cases one might have guessed.

Garcia, who took the reins of the nation’s oldest and largest public defender’s office in October, spent time monitoring conditions of Los Angeles County jails as part of a federal consent decree and defended a ...

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