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Sep. 4, 2009

Finding Answers (in Five Minutes)

The son of a cattle rancher, Ronald P. Kreber worked as a homicide detective and a criminal defense attorney before becoming a judge presiding over juvenile delinquency proceedings.

Read more about Ronald Kreber...

By Pat Alston

Daily Journal Staff Writer

ORANGE - A thick file landed on Judge Ronald P. Kreber's bench one day recently. He glanced at the name and frowned.

"He's done it again," Kreber thought.

The teenager, a longtime troublemaker, had repeatedly violated probation. The last time it got him eight months in Juvenile Hall.

Now he was back.

Prepared for disappointment, Kreber opened the file, then looked at the 1... (continued)

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