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Judges and Judiciary

Aug. 4, 2000

Undistilled Potables

By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. Justice Wendell Ravenswood, a close friend and associate of the Honorable Learned Foote - the scholarly provocateur-in-residence of Justice Arthur Gilbert's lively Daily Journal columns - was frustrated. The trial court had been persuaded to give a jury instruction theretofore known by only a half-dozen people, including a long-since-retired trial judge, two lawyers and the three associate justices of the 4th District who had too hastily signed


        By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr.
        
        Justice Wendell Ravenswood, a close friend and associate of the Honorable Learned Foote - the scholarly provocateur-in-residence of Justice Arthur Gilbert's lively Daily Journal columns - was frustrated. The trial court had been persuaded to give a jury instruction theretofore known by...

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