
Career Highlights: Retired April 2021. Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Gray Davis, 2000; deputy district attorney, Los Angeles County, 1975-2000
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law, 1975
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Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - One day in 2004, Judge Clifford Klein was sitting in his Alhambra courtroom when he felt his heart sink. He recognized the young man shuffling in jail shackles, walking toward the defense table. The 18-year-old was once a trouble-making teen orphan Klein released into social services years before. He had helped the youngster stay out of the corrections system, find housing w... (continued)