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Nov. 9, 2001

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Armstrong is retired, but then he isn't.

Armstrong stepped down from the bench in 1997. Yet he sits by assignment four months a year hearing criminal cases, just as he has done for more than 30 years.
The rest of the time he spends either at home in Orange or at his second home in Scotland, where he's become an expert on castles and distilleries but not golf.
But it's always nice to come back to the East District court in Pomona, he said, where a permanent staff and a familiar body of law a... (continued)

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