2010-07-08 / Around the County

Following in his father's footsteps

GAZETTE PHOTO BY JILL BALLINGER
ANDRE LAROCHE, PICTURED ABOVE, AT RIGHT, TAKES THE OATH TO BE AN ATTORNEY FROM MARIPOSA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE DANA WALTON. LAROCHE, WHOSE OATH IS FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, IS THE SON OF THE LATE MARIPOSA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE CARLOS LAROCHE AND RENEE LAROCHE OF MARIPOSA. ANDRE SURPRISED HIS MOM WITH THE LOCAL CEREMONY. WALTON HAD SAVED THE LATE JUDGE’S NAME PLATE, WHICH SAT AT THE CORNER OF THE BENCH AS HIS SON WAS SWORN. BELOW, ANDRE IS PICTURED IN THE SAME COURTROOM WITH HIS FATHER ON THE DAY JUDGE LAROCHE TOOK THE BENCH. ANDRE LAROCHE, PICTURED ABOVE, AT RIGHT, TAKES THE OATH TO BE AN ATTORNEY FROM MARIPOSA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE DANA WALTON. LAROCHE, WHOSE OATH IS FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, IS THE SON OF THE LATE MARIPOSA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE CARLOS LAROCHE AND RENEE LAROCHE OF MARIPOSA. ANDRE SURPRISED HIS MOM WITH THE LOCAL CEREMONY. WALTON HAD SAVED THE LATE JUDGE’S NAME PLATE, WHICH SAT AT THE CORNER OF THE BENCH AS HIS SON WAS SWORN. BELOW, ANDRE IS PICTURED IN THE SAME COURTROOM WITH HIS FATHER ON THE DAY JUDGE LAROCHE TOOK THE BENCH.

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