Los Angeles County (East Los Angeles Courthouse)
LOS ANGELES - As a public defender here, Enrique Monguia once represented a hard-partying defendant who got high on PCP, fled the scene of a car crash he was responsible for, and triggered a high-speed chase with police, resulting in four deaths.
Monguia's most lasting memory of this case: On the one-year anniversary of being released from 17 years in prison, the defendant left a voicemail thanking him.
"He made some really, really bad decisions,"... (continued)
