
By Brian Sumers
Daily Journal Staff Writer
RIVERSIDE - On the wall behind Judge Elaine Kiefer Johnson's desk is a picture of her father, a square-jawed man in a police uniform, his cap pulled down over his eyes and a cigarette dangling from his lips.
Without a college education, George Kiefer worked his way up to police chief in Greenfield, Mass., a city of about 17,000 in the northwest part of the state. And sometimes, usually when the stakes were s... (continued)