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Obituaries

Sep. 8, 2010

Tom Adler

1938-2010

By Pat Broderick

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN DIEGO - Tom Adler, a pioneering civil rights lawyer, died at his home in the Hillcrest section of San Diego Aug. 23 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 72.

"He never ceased to have his clients and, generally, civil rights, at the forefront of everything he did," said Michael Crowley, former president of the Criminal Defense Bar Association of San Die...

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