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Sep. 19, 2018

Exercising Discretion

Riverside Judge Mark Johnson, a military veteran, is not afraid of offering second chances.

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Riverside County (Banning)

BANNING — A couple of hours before he takes on a daily calendar that regularly tops 100 cases, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Mark E. Johnson settles into his chambers and takes on a different assignment: his schoolwork.

As a master’s student in UC Riverside’s low-residency creative writing program in Palm Desert, Johnson is writing a thesis he hopes will become his first published book, and it’s focused on the mi... (continued)

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