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Judges and Judiciary

Mar. 17, 2004

Judge Touts Education to Help Defendants Improve

LOS ANGELES - The young man stood shackled before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John Vernon Meigs, struggling to explain why he "just happened" to be standing around with some friends in an area where cops found some marijuana.

John Vernon Meigs
Superior Court Judge
Los Angeles
Career highlights: Los Angeles Superior Court judge, elevated by unification, 2000; appointed by Gov. Pete Wilson to Los Angeles Municipal Court, 1993; commissioner, elected by Munic...

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