Latasha Harlins

Judge Karlin stated that she received a lot of support for her decision. A 15-year-old child was killed, a good student, not a gang member. This grocer was so afraid of crime that she shot Latasha Harlins in the back of the head. And the judge said she has many supporters for this. When our black children are lynched and killed we are not, as the media portray us, tap-dancing. Or singing and asking for forgiveness. We cry, we grieve and we don't forget. How many children do we have to lose before people realize we are humans, we bleed?

A deputy district attorney asserted Wednesday that a judge "overstepped her bounds" in issuing no jail time to a Korean grocer who killed a black teen-ager last year, but the judge's lawyer said the sentence followed "every letter and sub-letter of the law." Amid heavy security in a packed downtown courtroom, Deputy Dist. Atty. Glenn R.

Joyce A. Karlin--stepping out of her role as a Superior Court judge to play the candidate--on Wednesday lashed out at politicians who, she says, have exploited her controversial decision to give probation to a Korean-born grocer convicted of killing a black girl. In her first round of interviews since a furor erupted over the sentence she gave to grocer Soon Ja Du, Karlin said her only regret has been the loss of her privacy. The judge also took a swipe at Los Angeles County Dist. Atty.

In a legal brief scheduled to be filed today, Superior Court Judge Joyce A. Karlin defends her controversial sentence of probation for a Korean-born grocer convicted of killing a black girl, saying the girl waged "a swift and violent attack" on the shopkeeper before the shooting. The brief, which contains Karlin's response to an appeal of the sentence, marks the judge's first effort to explain her decision since a public furor erupted over the ruling in November.

A state appeals court has agreed to consider Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner's petition to overturn a controversial sentence in which a Korean-born grocer was given probation for the killing of a black teen-ager. The unusual ruling by the 2nd District Court of Appeal was issued Monday by Judge Herbert Ashby, who scheduled a hearing for March 4. The hearing will effectively put on trial the sentence issued by Superior Court Judge Joyce A.

Two months after he refused to move Judge Joyce A. Karlin off the criminal bench, the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court now says he may reassign the controversial jurist, who has been the target of protests since she granted probation to a Korean-born grocer who killed a black teen-ager. Presiding Judge Ricardo A. Torres made his remarks Wednesday during a luncheon of the Los Angeles County Bar Assn. He said he intends to shuffle judicial assignments when Gov.

There's a ghost haunting Compton and it won't go away. You sense its presence on the streets and in the stores, in office buildings and in churches. Each time its name is said, the ghost's presence is enhanced and its longevity assured. The name is said often in Compton. They say it in anger and they say it in grief. They say it at rallies and they say it in sermons. They say it in writs and they say it in petitions. The ghost hovers with the persistence of sunlight and the power of a gale.

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner on Friday appealed a Superior Court judge's controversial decision to place a Korean-born grocer on probation for killing a 15-year-old black girl, a sentence he called "leniency outside the bounds of reason." Reiner's unusual attack on Judge Joyce A. Karlin came just hours after a group of her supporters criticized the district attorney for allegedly harassing the judge for reasons that have more to do with politics than justice.

Superior Court Judge Joyce A. Karlin, who sparked an uproar by sentencing a Korean-born grocer to probation for the shooting death of a black teen-age girl, defended herself publicly for the first time Wednesday. Calling a recently launched recall petition "an attack on the Constitution," Karlin urged voters to reject efforts to remove her from the bench.

Recall papers have been served on Joyce A. Karlin, the judge who sentenced a Korean-born grocer to five years probation for killing a black girl, and on the presiding judge of the court, who refused demands that Karlin be removed from the criminal bench.