
By Connie Lopez
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LONG BEACH - Last month, Judge James D. Otto gave friends and colleagues a tour of his Spanish-style 1924 home. All the while, his career hung in the balance.
"That kept me distracted," Otto said of the tour, which took his attention from the June 5 election, in which Kenneth Hughey, a retired deputy city attorney, attempted to unseat the supervising judge of the court's South District in Long Beac... (continued)