Judges and Judiciary
Oct. 31, 2008
L.A. Voters Face a Real Tear-Jerker of a Judicial Race
The race for Seat 82 of the Los Angeles County Superior Court has been fraught with questions of emotion and control. Thomas Rubinson has used campaign events to question everything from Cynthia Loo’s emotional fitness and ability to manage caseloads to the reliability of her election mailers. And the battle has spilled into other public arenas, with even the candidates’ family members duking it out in cyberspace.
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - Cynthia Loo was standing in the middle of her courtroom crying while attorneys, a bailiff and a court reporter looked on. She'd just been told that the 14-year-old boy she'd sentenced to house arrest two weeks earlier was dead, his body found slumped over on a porch surrounded by bullet casings. The juvenile court referee has since spoken candidly about the 2006 ordeal. She wrote...
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