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Aug. 14, 2020

Zeal yes, terror no

San Bernardino Judge John Pacheco will not let attorneys frighten jurors into a verdict.

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San Bernardino County

SAN BERNARDINO -- Judge John Pacheco's neighborhood didn't have a trash service when he was growing up, so he and his father would haul their garbage in a pickup truck to a local landfill.

He was raised in Bloomington in San Bernardino County, and once a month they made the trek. But one such excursion when Pacheco was 13 changed his family's lives.

"We barely had gone one block. We came... (continued)

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