Party affiliation?
Is that true in the case of prison rape too, judge, or just normal, every day rape...
The article doesn't mention it, so it could be either one.
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Can’t find it. He won an uncontested election in Orange County.
According to page 4 of this link, he was appointed to the bench in 2000 by Democrat Gray Davis.
http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/capcon0800.pdf