Roy J. Brown; Superior Court Judge
Roy J. Brown, 82, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge who was appointed to the bench by Gov. Ronald Reagan to fill a vacancy created by the state Legislature. Brown, a Republican from Long Beach, continued to sit as a part-time judge after his retirement in 1980, and in 1989 presided over a trial in Compton in which a jury awarded $5 million to the family of a security guard who was shot to death during a bank robbery. In Long Beach on Monday of the complications of old age.
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