VAN NUYS : St. John Fails to Turn Herself in for Evaluation
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Juanita St. John, a longtime friend and business associate of Mayor Tom Bradley, has not turned herself in for a court-ordered evaluation to determine sentencing for her conviction of felony embezzlement and tax evasion.
St. John was to have been sentenced Thursday in Van Nuys Superior Court, where the case was transferred from Los Angeles when Judge Michael Harwin was transferred. But the matter was continued to June 11 after St. John said she had not turned herself in for the prison testing.
Her attorney, Victor Sherman, also asked for the continuance. He could not be present Thursday because he was in trial at another court.
Harwin in February had ordered St. John to undergo the sociological and psychological testing, but postponed it pending an appeal of the conviction. The state appellate court declined to hear the appeal because a sentence has not been imposed, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Stephen Licker.
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