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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Apr. 29, 2015

Inquiry into judge's special bond with clerk comes to a close

Attorneys on opposing sides of a judicial ethics inquiry portrayed Judge Valeriano Saucedo as a manipulator trying to seduce his court clerk into a relationship or as a too-friendly mentor victimized by a woman he was trying to help.


By Laurinda Keys


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN DIEGO - Attorneys on opposing sides of a judicial ethics inquiry on Monday portrayed
Judge Valeriano Saucedo of Tulare County as a manipulator trying to seduce and intimidate
his court clerk into an intimate relationship or as a too-generous, too-friendly mentor
victimized by a woman he was trying to help.


The two...

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