Wesley Hsu, to be-installed tonight as president of the Southern California Chinese American Lawyers’ Association, says he still remembers perfectly well the day he decided he was going to become a prosecutor.
He’d been a high-achieving teen at Los Alamitos High School—he wrestled, he did the Academic Decathalon, he wrote for the school paper. He sat in the Model UN.
Then one day, in his junior year, both his parents were struck down by a drunk driver as they were crossing a local street.