Los Angeles County (Los Angeles)
LOS ANGELES — After almost two decades at the Compton Courthouse Judge H. Clay Jacke moved recently to the pinnacle of the county’s criminal justice system — the Ninth Floor of the Clara Shortridge Foltz courthouse where all the defendants face death or life in prison.
Every day, before taking the bench, looking at the framed paintings of his father and of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is enough for him t... (continued)