
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
OAKLAND - Lawyers jammed chairs and a couch in Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carol S. Brosnahan's cramped chambers early one recent morning.
A prosecutor searched through a rolling cart full of files. Outside the fourth floor of the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, traffic flew past on the Nimitz. A lineup of champion poker player bobbleheads, representing a favorite Brosnahan avocation, peered from a booksh... (continued)