Santa Barbara County Superior Court
SANTA BARBARA - Even after 45 years, Superior Court Judge Thomas R. Adams Jr. still finds sentencing the hardest part of his job.
"It's a burden that I accepted a long time ago and I guess I've learned to live with it," he said.
One decision that haunts him involves not the gruesome facts of the case per se, but the relationship he developed with the rapist and quadruple ... (continued)