Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010; partner, Brown, White & Newhouse LLP, Los Angeles, 2009-10; attorney, Law Office of James W. Spertus, Los Angeles 2008; senior counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Los Angeles 2002-08; assistant U.S. attorney, Los Angeles, 1991-2001; associate, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Los Angeles, 1991; associate, Wyman, Bautzer, Kuchel & Silbert, Los Angeles, 1988-91
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law
LOS ANGELES — The defendant was already facing bail of $50 million, one of the highest ever in Los Angeles County, when Judge David R. Fields ruled the leader of a church who was accused of many sex crimes against children should have no bail, period.
In July 2019, Naason Joaquin Garcia, head of La Luz del Mundo, was in Fields’ courtroom for a preliminary hearing where the judge heard details of videos of the defendant en... (continued)
