Los Angeles County (Torrance)
Career Highlights: Judge Thompson of the Los Angeles Superior Court died in August 2018.
Career Highlights: Judge Thompson of the Los Angeles Superior Court died in August 2018.
By Blake Edwards
Daily Journal Staff Writer
TORRANCE - A young man charged with misdemeanor public intoxication appeared before Judge Sandra Ann Thompson last month to ask for a continuance. The initial exchange between the two did not go well.
As Thompson questioned him about why he hadn't yet secured representation, the defendant became, for reasons that weren't entirely clear, visibly frustrated. Despite Thompson's admonitions, he repeated... (continued)
