Los Angeles County (Pasadena)
PASADENA — Judge Terry Smerling was a civil rights lawyer taking jails to court over access to more exercise and reading materials in the 1970s. But now he has a new approach.
“Ironically, I use jail now as a tool,” he said. “I’m not the same person I was when I was a young man.”
Smerling hears felony arraignments at the Pasadena Courthouse and the early disposition calendar, where attor... (continued)