Judges and Judiciary
Jun. 28, 2013
California judges get dramatic at historical reading
Six state and federal judges presented a drama Tuesday night in downtown Los Angeles titled "Chief Justice David S. Terry and Federalism: A Life and a Doctrine in Three Acts."
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - David S. Terry, the fourth chief justice of the state Supreme Court during 1857-59, managed over the course of his lifetime to stab a San Francisco vigilante, shoot and kill a sitting U.S. senator in a duel, marry another senator's mistress, assault a 9th Circuit judge and die at the hands of the judge's bodyguard.
Some of these chapters of Terry's life were dramatized Tuesd...
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