
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
MONTEREY PARK - There was something about the 15-year-old gang member in Jacqueline H. Lewis' dependency courtroom. The boy, permanently injured in a drive-by shooting, had more than a little attitude.
"He was not an easy kid," Lewis said.
Everyone told Lewis, a Superior Court referee at the time, that she was wasting her time. But she encouraged the teenager to keep moving forward.
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