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Mar. 2, 2014

Coleman A. Blease

Veteran Justice Coleman A. Blease, with 35 years on the bench, prefers strict interpretation of statutes.

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Coleman A. Blease
3rd District Court of Appeal (Sacramento)

By Emily Green

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - Sometimes one's best intentions can go awry.

Justice Coleman Blease learned that early in his career, when he watched nearly 800 students get arrested at the University of Berkeley under a law he himself had sloppily crafted. Blease was a professor in the university's speech department, and the students were part of the 1964 seminal Free Speech Movement.

The law Blease thought he wrot... (continued)

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