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Administrative/Regulatory

Jun. 5, 2003

Jurist's Tough-Love Justice Guides Addicts to Sobriety

SANTA MARIA - Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Rogelio R. Flores doesn't spend a lot of time sitting on the bench. It's easier for Flores to dispense his "tough love" brand of justice to the legions of alcoholics, drug addicts and mentally ill who flood his courtroom each year by being physically near them rather than perched high above them.

        


        

        
Rogelio R. Flores
Superior Court Judge
Santa Barbara (Santa Maria)
Career highlights: Elevated by unification, 1998; appointed by Gov. Pete Wilson to the Santa Barbara Municipal Court...

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