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LWV League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
Los Angeles County, CA November 4, 2014 Election
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Jacqueline H. Lewis
Answers Questions

Candidate for
Judge of the Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 61

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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles and asked of all candidates for this office.
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Questions & Answers

1. What specific personal qualities make you especially qualified to be a judge?

Judicial Experience Matters! I have been a sitting judicial officer for the last 17 years. I have presided over more than 10,000 trials I am fair, through and decisive. I am able to handle heavy calendars while still allowing people to be heard. I am the only candidate running that the Los Angeles County Bar Association rated "Exceptionally Well Qualified". The LA Times endorsed me and said that I stood out as "hands-down best of the class".

2. Do you favor alternative sentences for non-violent offenders in view of the current prisoner overcrowding problems, and if so, what options should be available?

As a sitting judicial officer, The Canon of Judicial Ethics prohibits me from commenting on issues that might come before me as a judge. I can say, however, that I have seen some types of alternative sentencing such as drug programs be effective in helping some people to turn their lives around. In addition, see my ideas on this issue in the Political Philosophy section.

Responses to questions asked of each candidate are reproduced as submitted to the League.  Candidates' answers are presented as submitted.

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