Appellate Justice Jeffrey W. Johnson sobbed for about five minutes as a woman he mentored testified how he had inspired her during the first day of testimony Friday by his defense witnesses in a disciplinary hearing on allegations from 17 women that he verbally and physically bullied and sexually harassed them.

LOS ANGELES -- Justice Jeffrey W. Johnson of the 2nd District Court of Appeal sobbed for 5 minutes as a woman he mentored told a disciplinary panel Friday how he had inspired her.

The woman was one of the first witnesses called as Johnson's attorneys began putting on a defense to a broad ranging of misconduct allegations that could end with his removal from the bench.<...

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