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Judges and Judiciary

Jan. 15, 2015

Cartoonists' killings raises old issue of where satire crosses the line for ex-judge

News of the Charlie Hebdo slayings struck a raw nerve for retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge LaDoris H. Cordell, who was privately reprimanded for her own political cartoons in 1999.


By Alison Frost


Daily Journal Staff Writer




When retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge LaDoris H. Cordell first heard that 12 people at French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo were killed by suspected Islam...

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