Judge Karlin Fights Back
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Judge Karlin’s sentence of probation for Soon Ja Du and the judge’s reasons for the sentence are correct (Feb. 25). The opponents of Judge Karlin and Mrs. Du in South Los Angeles are racists.
By appealing the sentence, Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner is playing to the mob for votes like the D.A. in Tom Wolfe’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities.”
JAMES M. KALLIS, Los Angeles
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