In his first year at the Riverside County district attorney’s office, Frederick H. Bysshe didn’t lose a case while handling misdemeanor trials, and all of that initial success earned him his first shot at a felony trial in the early 1960s, which didn’t end up going quite as well.
“I got my ass whipped by Dave Hennigan. He was the best criminal lawyer in Riverside County,” Bysshe recalled. “We fought like hell, and he beat me bad... (continued)