By Tim Hay
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Juvenile Court Judge Michael D. Coughlan will never be the kind of jurist who is resented by young offenders for passing judgment on their lives from some ivory tower.
Like most of those who appear in his San Joaquin County court, the judge had a rough-and-tumble childhood in the dusty farming towns around Stockton. He knows wh... (continued)
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Juvenile Court Judge Michael D. Coughlan will never be the kind of jurist who is resented by young offenders for passing judgment on their lives from some ivory tower.
Like most of those who appear in his San Joaquin County court, the judge had a rough-and-tumble childhood in the dusty farming towns around Stockton. He knows wh... (continued)