Days before Mark Browning retired as a 1st Circuit Court judge in December 2023, an aggrieved party in a case that had been pending before family court broke into his Kailua home.
Browning’s adult son was there at the time and saw the person come through a window. He called the police, and the intruder ran back outside and fled in a vehicle.
Browning’s reaction was a mix of anger, shock and, mostly, relief that his son was okay. After serving nearly three decades as a judge, he was used to people taking out their frustrations with the justice system on him.
“I trained myself to compartmentalize my reactions to these things so that it didn’t affect my duties and my responsibilities and how I perform on the bench,” he told Civil Beat…