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Aug. 3, 2008

Moving Up

For Georgina Torres Rizk, taking a seat on the Superior Court was the next step in a legal career that has spanned almost 35 years and included incarnations as a civil rights attorney, federal public defender, law professor and administrative law judge.

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Moving Up
Los Angeles County
By Cortney Fielding
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 5

      LOS ANGELES - It was late July, and Richard Alvarez was standing before Judge Georgina Torres Rizk once again.
      The judge had previously sentenced Alvarez to three years of probation for felony drug possession. That allowed the middle-aged man to avoid prison by enrolling in a substance abuse t... (continued)

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