Santa Clara County (San Jose)
SAN JOSE — Domestic violence victims appear in Judge Evette Pennypacker’s courtroom every day, but they don’t know she was once in their shoes.
“My mom was abusive,” she said, a brief statement followed by lingering silence in her chambers.
Pennypacker also witnessed violent altercations between her parents before her father left when she was 11. The judge said she doesn’t bring up her p... (continued)