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WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
HERE COMES THE JUDGE – Courtroom doors are set to open today in L.A. for one of the most anticipated judicial disciplinary hearings in recent history. Cheryl Miller reports that state appeals court Judge Jeffrey Johnson, a former Manatt Phelps associate, faces a panel of special masters tasked with evaluating claims that he sexually harassed or inappropriately touched more than two dozen colleagues and court employees. Among his accusers is a fellow judge who claims that Johnson, on the appellate bench for a decade, groped her breasts and patted her buttocks at the courthouse.
