Trial attorney Daniel Mentzer will join Yodit Tewolde and Rachel Juarez on the panel of judges for the nationally syndicated courtroom show Hot Bench in its upcoming 12th season this fall.
Shooting on Season 12 began this week in Hot Bench‘s new location, Stamford Studios in Connecticut, where the show moved from Los Angeles due to lucrative local tax credits.
Mentzer, who succeeds retiring Judge Michael Corriero, won’t be the only new face next season. Gina Findley, a former NYPD Detective in the Chaplains Unit who retired last year after decades on the force, has joined as the new Bailiff.
She replaces Sonia Montejano who had worked as Bailiff on Hot Bench for its 11 seasons to date but did not make the move to Connecticut.
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