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Calif. Judge Stabbed By Defendant is Physically Fine, Struggling Emotionally

Posted Mar 9, 2009 5:22 PM CST
By Martha Neil

Less than a week after being stabbed by the defendant in a murder case, a California judge is back on the job.

But San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Cinda Fox hasn't yet returned to the bench. Her courtroom, in which a Lodi police detective shot and killed the defendant as he was stabbing the judge with a six-inch shank he had smuggled in from jail, is still being worked on, according to the Stockton Record.

And Fox is still struggling to regain her emotional equilibrium. “I’m so grateful to be alive," she tells the newspaper, crediting Detective Eric Bradley for saving her life by shooting to death the defendant, 29-year-old David Paradiso.

Physically, I’m healing, but emotionally …” the judge said, ending the interview when she was unable to continue.

Earlier coverage:

ABAJournal.com: "Calif. Courtroom Melee: Defendant Stabs Judge, Is Shot Dead By Detective"

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B. McLeod
Mar 9, 2009 5:49 PM CST

Probably it would be helpful if they set Judge Fox up to meet with a trauma counselor at least a few times over this.  It has to be unnerving for a judge who was just trying to do her proper job to be met with this kind of savagery.  Obviously anyone and everyone who had to cross paths with this defendant was in considerable peril.  We can only hope the security staff will take better precautions in the future.

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