Los Angeles Superior Court
By Cortney Fielding
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - When young offenders try to convince Patricia Nieto poverty was trapping them in lives of crime and dead-end jobs, she has them take a look around her courtroom, where everyone from the sheriff's deputy to the clerk came from rough neighborhoods, too. Then she recites her own story. Raised in a working class, largely Latino-immigrant area of Kansas City, Nieto made her way... (continued)
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - When young offenders try to convince Patricia Nieto poverty was trapping them in lives of crime and dead-end jobs, she has them take a look around her courtroom, where everyone from the sheriff's deputy to the clerk came from rough neighborhoods, too. Then she recites her own story. Raised in a working class, largely Latino-immigrant area of Kansas City, Nieto made her way... (continued)
