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Apr. 26, 2010

Chester Horn Jr.

Not only do celebrities not get special treatment in his courtroom, Chester Horn barely remembers them. He's all about the 'Perry Mason' moments.

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Chester Horn Jr.
Los Angeles County (Los Angeles)
ADR Services

By Evan George

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - As Judge Chester Horn scrolled through memories of past trials, he was not fishing for lawyers' names, or criminal defendants' faces, but retracing the dramatic arc of their cases.

There was the double murder of a pregnant woman and her fetus, and a tense, after-hours hold-up of an elderly store clerk who failed to steal a glance of the thief he'd later have to identify.

Horn fix... (continued)

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