A retired federal judge takes a stroll through Skid Row to prepare for his new assignment
by Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times
Oct 02, 2023
3 minutes
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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