In a ceremony on May 25, the Los Angeles County criminal justice system added the names of 10 individuals to the Criminal Justice Wall of Fame.
District Attorney Steve Cooley unveiled the latest additions to the wall at a ceremony at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. The Wall of Fame’s additions included three judges, five criminal defense counsel and two prosecutors.
Among those being honored were: Paul Boland, an associate justice of the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District and former presiding judge of Juvenile Court, Florence-Marie Cooper, a U.S. District Court judge, Morio L. Fukuto, who led a 25-year career as a trial and appellate jurist, Robert Berke, a veteran defense lawyer who fought for human rights, Michael R. Concha, who spent 36-years as a trial attorney and manager in the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office, Phyllis Norton Cooper, a charter member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, William I. Gilbert, a defense lawyer who represented clients in some of Los Angeles County’s highest-profile cases in the first half of the 20th century, Charles Earl Lloyd, the first African-American to supervise the Criminal Division of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, P. Philip Halpin, a deputy district attorney who secured convictions in “The Onion Field” kidnapping and murder of a Los Angeles police officer and “The Night Stalker” murders, Richard Hecht, a prosecutor and leader in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office who oversaw the prosecution of college militants in the 1960s.
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