Judges and Judiciary
May 8, 2012
What’s in a number?
Waxing poetic on 24 years and 200 columns, as well as my brief encounter with jury duty.
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.
UNDER SUBMISSION
This is the 200th column I have written for the Daily Journal. (Yawn) What's in a number? Why should a round number be a milestone? Why not trumpet the 197th column? When Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile in 1954, everyone went nuts. He ran it in 3.59.4 seconds. But a little more than a month later, Larry Landy ran the mile in 3.58 seconds. And today the college kid who lives up the street can...
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