Judges and Judiciary
Oct. 8, 2003
Criticizing Critics
A neighbor told me about a TV reality show he saw last week: "They showed you a real court with as many members as a football team holding a hearing about the recall election. One of the judges on TV, no doubt the star, said the trial court judge 'sort of missed it on the Voting Rights Act ... I won't tell if you don't tell,' and everybody laughed."
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.
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A neighbor told me about a TV reality show he saw last week: "They showed you a real court with as many members as a football team holding a hearing about the recall election. One of the judges on TV, no doubt the star, said the trial court judge 'sort of missed it on the Voting Rights Act ... I won't tell if you don't tell,' and everybody laughed."
I pointed out that all 11 judges on the panel were stars in their o...
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