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Charles S. Burnell (September 21, 1874 – June 23, 1949) served 21 years as a judge in Los Angeles County, California, presiding over trials that sometimes involved Hollywood motion-picture personalities. Several opinions from higher courts castigated or chastised Burnell for his activities or statements in court. ==Personal== Burnell was born on September 21, 1874, in Elko, Nevada, to S. M. and Anna Smith; as an infant he was adopted by his stepfather, Martin Burnell. He was brought to California when he was a year old. He was educated in private schools in Sonoma County, California, and was graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in the first graduating class of Stanford University in 1895. He earned a master of arts from Stanford in 1896, and he was later given an honorary doctor of laws degree from Loyola University in Los Angeles.〔("Judge Burnell Dies While on Vacation," ''Los Angeles Times,'' June 24, 1949, page A-1 )〕 Burnell and Blanche Iola Emery were married in 1907, and they had a daughter, Dorothy. In 1934, Blanche was granted a divorce in Los Angeles on the grounds of desertion after a decree had been refused in Reno, Nevada, in 1931. In 1936 he married Agnes Storey Smith in Sandpoint, Idaho, whom he had met while on a vacation in Alaska; he adopted her daughter, Beth.〔〔("Judge Will Wed Today," ''Los Angeles Times,'' August 20, 1936, page A-1 )〕〔("Burnell's Wife Ends Marriage," ''Los Angeles Times,'' June 13, 1934, page A-8 )〕 He was a member of Palestine Masonic Lodge 351, the University Club, Stanford Club, Chaparral Club and the Hollywood Golf and Country Club.〔 Burnell, of 170 South Vista Street in the Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles,〔() Location of the Burnell residence in 1949 on ''Mapping L.A.''〕 died in Sebastopol, California, on June 23, 1949, while on vacation in Sonoma County. His death was attributed to a heart attack.〔 He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, after an "unusually brief funeral service" in the Church of the Recessional that "consisted almost solely of a poem written by the judge himself," and was preceded by a "short eulogy" by Superior Judge Charles E. Haas, "a friend of Judge Burnell's for 55 years." Burnell had been known as the "poet laureate of the bench."〔〔("'The Last Wish Fulfilled," ''Los Angeles Times,'' June 30, 1949, page 2 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles S. Burnell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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