
By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SANTA ANA - The bailiff got nervous when a suspicious-looking young man entered Orange County Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Guerrero Macias's courtroom a few weeks ago. He even unsnapped the keeper on his holster and moved to restrain the man.
But the judge stopped him. The fellow, it turned out, had been a client when Macias was a deputy federal public defender. He'd come to her Santa Ana courtr... (continued)