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A retired federal judge takes a stroll through Skid Row to prepare for his new assignment

District Judge David O. Carter, 79, left, and retired Judge Jay C. Gandhi, right, speak with Paula Chatman, who has been homeless in downtown L.A.’ s Skid Row for 40 years.

The walking tour was part tutorial and part tryout — one federal judge passing on to another his knowledge of Skid Row while testing his colleague's tolerance for its sights and sounds and the daily struggles of its hard-pressed inhabitants.

The day after signing off on a that requires Los Angeles County to provide 3,000 new mental-health and substance-use treatment beds and commit hundreds of millions of dollars in services for homeless housing, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter staged a hands-on test of the fellow judge nominated as

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