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Aug. 13, 2009

Beach to Bench

As a child growing up outside Sydney, Australia, Mark A. Young was an avid swimmer. These days, the former federal prosecutor presides over a misdemeanor courtroom in East Los Angeles.

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Beach to Bench
Los Angeles County Superior Court (East Los Angeles)
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - For more than a decade, the Vineland Boys terrorized anyone who got in the way of their money-making operation: the widespread sale of illegal drugs.

The San Fernando Valley-based street gang relied on witness intimidation, assaults, even murder to keep its enemies in line.

And then along came an adversary they could not control: Mark A. Young, a 30-something, Australian-born l... (continued)

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