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Mar. 15, 2016

George F. Bird

LA County Judge George Bird defers to counsel as he presides over a diversion pilot project.

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George F. Bird
Los Angeles County Superior Court (Torrance)
By Matthew Blake
Daily Journal Staff Writer

TORRANCE - Rookie Judge George F. Bird was thrown into the fire of presiding over Los Angeles County's Early Disposition Program, a six-month-old diversion pilot program for misdemeanor crimes. But the judge said he is letting lawyers run the show.

"The success or failure of the EDP court is not on me," Bird said while sitting at his fastidiously arranged de... (continued)

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