Los Angeles County (Lancaster)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010; partner, McLaughlin Law Group, 2008-10, sole practitioner, 1994-2008.
Law School: UCLA School of Law, 1991
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010; partner, McLaughlin Law Group, 2008-10, sole practitioner, 1994-2008.
Law School: UCLA School of Law, 1991
LANCASTER — During a probation hearing in April, Judge Denise McLaughlin-Bennett carefully explained to a woman suffering from mental illness that if she completed a one-year treatment program, her felony arson charge would be reduced to a misdemeanor and a three-year prison sentence could be dropped.
“You with me?” McLaughlin-Bennett asked the woman in a mostly empty courtroom in the northernmost point of Los Angeles Cou... (continued)
