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Judges and Judiciary

Sep. 25, 2007

Court Adjourned

The recent death of Justice Paul Boland leads the ever-unpredictable Arthur Gilbert to muse on everything from the meaning of life to how to stay out of traffic school.

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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Years ago, when I was a trial judge, I presided over a criminal case in which a physician had been charged with false advertising. He had promoted himself as an expert breast-implant surgeon. Several victims testified in graphic detail how he had botched the job. The victims felt the doctor had made them look like women conjured from the imagination of Picasso during the painter's cubist period.

One of the victims co...

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