
By Vik Jolly
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SANTA BARBARA - On a recent humid Monday afternoon in a 12 by 17 foot trailer doubling as juvenile court, Judge Denise de Bellefeuille offered a word of encouragement here and a splash of reinforcement there for wayward youth standing before her, many struggling through growing pains and filled with teenage angst.
"You look so elegant today," she said to one teen on probation, wearing a suit and tie. &quo... (continued)