Strolling around the 26th Annual Empowerment Congress Summit at USC, passing an urban choir singing in angelic harmony, Robin Moore stopped at the LA County Public Defender booth.

On a cloudless June morning in 2010, Shaka Senghor walked out of prison after serving 19 years — seven of them in solitary confinement. Just shy of his 19th birthday, he had shot and killed a man in a drug deal gone awry.

The LA County Board of Supervisors on March 19 celebrated Public Defense Day to honor the 55th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Gideon v. Wainwright.

The LA County Public Defender’s Jail Liaison Program won the Silver Eagle Award during Los Angeles County’s Quality and Productivity Awards Ceremony on Oct. 18, 2017 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Eighteen years sober, the grandmother wearing the stylish flat cap had a rap sheet from her younger days, a past that didn’t reflect who she is now. She saw on the LA County Channel a video about record-clearing events and took action.