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Nov. 12, 2009

Richard T. Fields

Judge Richard T. Fields presided over the Riverside courts through a period of overflowing dockets; now he hears criminal cases.

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Richard T. Fields
Riverside County (Riverside) Superior Court
California Court of Appeal

By Pat Alston

Daily Journal Staff Writer

RIVERSIDE - The Vietnamese immigrant sat in the gallery, his head bowed. He never looked up.

Day after day, witnesses called to Judge Richard T. Fields' Riverside courtroom described the circumstances surrounding the drowning of the man's 18-year-old daughter, Minh Phuong Thi Tran. She had been on a camping trip with her church youth group at Lake Elsinore and was wading in shallow water when the bottom un... (continued)

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