Ricardo García (attorney)
Ricardo García | |
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| Education | Santa Monica High School University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A.) UC Berkeley School of Law (J.D.) |
| Occupation(s) | Public Defender for Los Angeles County; criminal defense attorney |
Ricardo García is an American criminal defense attorney. Garcia is currently the public defender for the Los Angeles County Public Defender's office, the largest public defender's office in the United States. Garcia is Los Angeles County's eleventh Public Defender and LA County's first Latino Public Defender.
Garcia has served as an adjunct professor at California Western School of Law and on the faculty at the Shechmeister Death Penalty College at Santa Clara University.