Criminal
May 14, 2011
New Kern D.A. Takes Tough Approach
Law-and-order Kern County, located in the heart of California's "Bible Belt," has a new district attorney, Lisa S. Green. But the county's notoriously hard-charging prosecutors aren't going soft anytime soon.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
BAKERSFIELD - In this law-and-order county that seems closer to conservative Midland, Texas than nearby liberal Los Angeles, Kern County District Attorney Ed Jagels was a larger-than-life figure.
The once golden boy of California Republicans spearheaded successful campaigns to oust three liberal state Supreme Court justices in the 1980s - most famously Chief Justice Rose Bird - and was a driving forc...
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