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Jan. 17, 2020

Legal Commitment

Born in war-torn Cambodia, Judge Jana Seng doesn’t take the rule of law and due process lightly.

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Los Angeles County (Monterey Park)

MONTEREY PARK — Judge Jana M. Seng was born 10 days before the takeover of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. She has few memories of life under the communist regime but can gather details, which she learned later in life, to sketch a comprehensible picture of her early childhood.

Her family was forced into a slave labor camp where they tended rice fields in exchange for “a bowl of watery rice every day,” Seng said. When the K... (continued)

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