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Description:: Jury foreman John P. Buckley and Judge Pat Parker at the Los Angeles County Grandy Jury trial where District Attorney Buron Fitts was indicted on charges of perjury and bribery.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Jury foreman John P. Buckley at the Los Angeles County Grandy Jury trial where District Attorney Buron Fitts was indicted on charges of perjury and bribery.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Will E. MacFaden (1913-1992) and Robert W. Kenny (1901-1976), pose together as two of California's youngest judges. William E. MacFaden (1913-1992) became the youngest judge in the state of California when he was sworn in as Redondo Beach city judge on July 1934.Robert W. Kenny was a former reporter and one of the youngest judges selected to serve as a Superior Court Judge in Los Angeles. He was appointed on December 6, 1932. He later served as the 21st Attorney General of California.
Date:: between 1932-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William E. MacFaden (1913-1992) became the youngest judge in the state of California when he was sworn in as Redondo Beach city judge on July 1934. After he was admitted to the California Bar in 1936, MacFaden opened a family law practice in Redondo Beach, where he served as city attorney from 1941 to 1947. He also was Hawthorne's city attorney from 1944 to 1946. In 1960, MacFaden became a judge in South Bay Municipal Court. Gov. Edmund G. Brown elevated him to the Superior Court bench in 1963. Over the years, he served as presiding judge of the county's juvenile court, family law and mental health departments, and the Torrance Superior Court.
Date:: Between 1934-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William E. MacFaden (1913-1992) became the youngest judge in the state of California when he was sworn in as Redondo Beach city judge on July 1934. After he was admitted to the California Bar in 1936, MacFaden opened a family law practice in Redondo Beach, where he served as city attorney from 1941 to 1947. He also was Hawthorne's city attorney from 1944 to 1946. In 1960, MacFaden became a judge in South Bay Municipal Court. Gov. Edmund G. Brown elevated him to the Superior Court bench in 1963. Over the years, he served as presiding judge of the county's juvenile court, family law and mental health departments, and the Torrance Superior Court.
Date:: Between 1934-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Deputy Prosecutor L.C. Avery poses (on the left) with Judge Thomas L. Ambrose in a courtroom, possibly to do with the November 1934 election race for the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Date:: [1934?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: “Night-life figure” (read: Madam) Lee Francis and Judge Cecil D. Holland examining an anonymous letter sent to Judge Holland which asked the court to convict Francis. Francis was arrested on a morals offense after she offered two girls to an undercover deputy sheriff over the phone. This was the second letter sent to the Judge that condemned Francis’s actions.
Date:: February 5, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Taken during Branting’s trip to Los Angeles from Stockholm to lecture about the rising Nazi threat. Her trip was sponsored by the World Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism. She was welcomed to Los Angeles by a group headed by Judge Lindsey. Branting and Lindsey were known figures on social reform issues in their respective nations. Branting’s father was multiple-time Swedish Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting.
Date:: [November 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Pope was a Municipal Court Judge and the first public defend in Los Angeles, among other positions. Pope's papers are housed at UCLA.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William G. Bonelli (second from left), State Board of Equalization member, and Merle Templeton (far right), Chief Liquor Control Officer, both charged with involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which they allegedly conspired to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license. Far left is A. Brigham Rose, attorney for Ed Levine, another alleged member of the pay-off ring, which included at least six members. Second from right is Judge Carlos S. Hardy, who was not the judge for the trial
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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