2 proceeding appearances across 1 trial • First appearance: August 23, 1995
💬 From the record:
James Hahn, the Los Angeles City Attorney, appeared as a speaker in two 1995 motion hearings: one concerning access to the Fuhrman tapes and another concerning a subpoena duces tecum and a McKinny recording. At the August 23 hearing, Hahn confirmed that Police Commission representatives had listened to the tapes and reviewed transcripts at counsel's office, but argued that this arrangement was too cumbersome and insufficiently reliable for a proper investigation and sought access permitting review on their own schedule. Judge Lance Ito questioned his authority to provide the materials to nonparties and proposed, subject to the owner's consent, giving Hahn and Darryl Mounger marked copies of the District Attorney's transcript that they could not duplicate and would return within a reasonable time.
James Kenneth Hahn is a Los Angeles Superior Court judge and an American former lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Hahn was elected the 40th mayor of Los Angeles in 2001. He served until 2005, at which time he was defeated in his bid for re-election. Prior to his term as Mayor, Hahn served in several other capacities for the city of Los Angeles, including deputy city attorney (1975–1979), city controller (1981–1985) and city attorney (1985–2001). Hahn is the only individual in the city's history to have been elected to all three citywide offices. He is currently a sitting judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court.