INGLEWOOD — Judge Patricia Titus had a tradition of handing out pencils to jurors once a trial was over.
“It had my name on it,” she said. “So I had run out of pencils and had just ordered a new set and where I ordered them from, you had to order like 1,000. You couldn’t break it up smaller.”
But then Titus was assigned to drug court, where there are no jurors. She still hands pencils ou... (continued)