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Halim Dhanidina talks historic Long Beach lewd conduct case

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Halim Dhanidina did something that lawyers and LGBTQ+ advocates in Long Beach had attempted for more than 50 years —  He helped put the nail in the coffin of the Police Department’s odious practice of targeting and discriminating against gay men in lewd conduct stings.

It was an established tactic that the department had used for more than 100 years, dating to 1914. A play was even written about this dark chapter in Long Beach history, “The Twentieth Century Way.” Halim Dhanidina Dhanidina’s role was vital.

He was the first Los Angeles Superior Court judge at the Long Beach courthouse to ever dismiss one of these cases during a preliminary hearing.

His scathing April 2016 ruling against the city’s police department and prosecutor’s office said their discriminatory actions violated the Equal Protection Clause of both the California and U.S.

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