RETIRING JUDGE
Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Weisberg will retire this week after 20 years on the bench. She has heard some of the Westside’s most interesting cases.
Weisberg, 60, said she will spend her final day in a Beverly Hills court today before beginning her job as a jurist overseeing privately funded civil trials.
Appointed to the bench in 1976, Weisberg said her favorite case was the 1983 civil trial to settle the estate of the late Groucho Marx. Even comedian George Burns appeared as a witness. “It was a lively case,” she said. “Whatever [Burns] said, everyone laughed.”
Two trials she was happy not to oversee: the Menendez murder trials, heard by her husband, Judge Stanley Weisberg.
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