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Sep. 13, 2023

Judge Kelly Kelley, a career prosecutor, tries to help defendants avoid trial

LA judge handled a complex criminal jury trial in her 1st year on the bench.

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Los Angeles County Superior Court

TORRANCE -- What Superior Court Judge Kelly M. Kelley says she enjoys most about her misdemeanor assignment is the rapport she is able to build with people.

Unusually, the career prosecutor who was unopposed in her election to the bench in 2020, has also been assigned jury trials -- including a complex double murder -- during her first year on the bench.

No matter what she is facin... (continued)

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