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Nov. 17, 2008

The Careful Listener

The target of a false accusation, Judge Cara D. Hutson keeps an open ear for defendants' side of the story.

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By Jason W. Armstrong
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN BERNARDINO - In dealing with criminal defendants, Judge Cara D. Hutson said, she often harkens back to a "bizarre" experience she had when she was 9.

One day, she said, her baby sitter accused her of stealing the decorative bricks that lined a tree in the sitter's front yard.

"She accused me of taking those and hiding them someplace," Hutson, who sits on the San Bernardino Coun... (continued)

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