The temperature in Indio was a mere 115 degrees the day newly appointed Deputy Public Defender B.J. Bjork and his wife. Kathleen, stepped out of the car after driving up from San Diego.
"We'll give it two years," Bjork gasped after sucking in a lung full of dry desert air, "two years tops. Then we're out of here."
That was in 1971, and 29 years later, the Bjorks are still there. Only now it's Judge B.J. Bjork, 60, who runs a... (continued)
