“Do me a favor,” Benitez told the marshal. Then he addressed the defendant’s daughter in the gallery, asked for her name, and then asked her to approach and stand next to her father’s attorney. The man told the judge: “She’s basically growing up where I grew up, so she’s encountering the same people that I grew up with that’s going to lead her into the same path that I went down.”Īfter some additional arguments about his case, Benitez addressed a U.S. The judge interrupted the defendant, asking him what he meant. He said the only way he believed he could turn his life around was by “leaving what I know, leaving everybody I know.” Then he told Benitez his daughter was “following the same footsteps as I am right now.” The hearing was held to revoke probation for the girl’s father, following completion of a five-year prison sentence on a drug distribution conspiracy charge and an additional five years of supervised release that was not going well.Ĭalifornia One man’s fight to hold an LAPD officer accountable for a protest shootingĭeon Jones’ legal battle to hold the LAPD accountable for wounding him at a 2020 protest has been long and arduous. The executive director of Federal Defenders asked for a list of questions about the incident but did not respond to them Tuesday. He could not be reached for comment Tuesday, and his appointed attorney from Federal Defenders of San Diego did not respond to messages. The incident was first made public Monday by the legal blog Above the Law and occurred during a hearing for the girl’s father. Murguia wrote in the order that she publicly disclosed the complaint against Benitez “in order to ‘maintain public confidence in the Judiciary’s ability to redress misconduct or disability.’”īenitez declined to comment Tuesday through his administrative law clerk, who wrote in an email that the judge “regrets that he is not permitted to comment on matters pending before the court.”
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