Judges and Judiciary
Oct. 14, 2009
The Budget Cut Conundrum
Presiding Justice Arthur Gilbert talks about budget cuts and the judiciary from an insider's point of view.
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
The headline smacked me in the face. Despite Money Woes, Judges Train in Luxury. (Daily Journal, Aug. 11, 2009.) A thousand tiny pools of perspiration dampened my forehead. The pools overflowed and the rivulets cascaded down the craggy crevices of my face. (The two preceding sentences appeared in a draft of an opinion I wrote on the issue of retraxit. For some reason my colleagues refused to concur unless I deleted the sentences. So I thought I would use them here.)
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