Los Angeles County (East Los Angeles Courthouse)
Career Highlights: Appointed to Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2014; public defender, Los Angeles County, 1986-2014, staff attorney, Mission Community Legal Defense, San Francisco, 1983-86
Law School: UC Berkeley, 1983
Career Highlights: Appointed to Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2014; public defender, Los Angeles County, 1986-2014, staff attorney, Mission Community Legal Defense, San Francisco, 1983-86
Law School: UC Berkeley, 1983
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)
