<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline . Please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted . Find sources: "Larry Bakman"--news newspapers books scholar JSTOR (February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Larry Bakman is an American attorney and was a judge on Judge Judith Sheindlin's TV series Hot Bench from 2014 to 2016 . </P> <P> Bakman graduated cum laude from The University of California Los Angeles with a B.A. degree, and he received his Juris Doctorate from the Southwestern University School of Law . </P> <P> Bakman is a former Los Angeles City Attorney . He then began a practice in the area of criminal defense . He defended several cases brought by the United States Government under the RICO act . One example is a federal death penalty case in which his client was charged with a triple homicide in furtherance of Mexican Mafia activities . After an eleven - month trial, Bakman obtained an acquittal on all charges . </P>

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