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Judges and Judiciary

May 6, 2003

Traffic-School Detour

People have complained. My column is late once again. But what do you expect after my last column, which appeared in March? You may recall the subversive theme which bound all the seemingly unrelated topics together: Judges are human. They screw up just like everyone else.

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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People have complained. My column is late once again. But what do you expect after my last column, which appeared in March? You may recall the subversive theme which bound all the seemingly unrelated topics together: Judges are human. They screw up just like everyone else.

Clinging to the cliché that to err is human, I foolishly confessed to speeding on the insidious Pacific Coast Highway. A behemoth they call a spor...

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