Published on Wednesday, February 03, 2010
By Daily Breeze Staff Writer
It was sudden death. Only not death, not if you count an hour-and-a-half lunch in a part of town lousy with good eats.
Actually, it was more an abrupt transition to another world, to a huge, frozen-in-time downtown L.A. courthouse, a courthouse so big and busy it reminded me of an airport. Specifically, an airport run by lawyers and similar to our real airport in flashback qualities.
At LAX, its permanently 1984 while the Clara Shortridge Foltz (first female lawyer in the West) Criminal Justice Center screams 1960s. You could practically smell the Brylcreem and Old Spice in the duct-taped carpeting and in tile and terrazzo hallways worn smooth by human misery and foot traffic in a system heading for hard times.
That's another whole story, how the L.A. Superior Courts will lose 450 employees in coming cuts and how each 10 employees means the loss of one courtroom for a projected total - says Presiding Judge Charles McCoy - of 50 shuttered courtrooms
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