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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Sep. 12, 2007

Judicial Drought Has Created a Third World Legal System in Riverside County

Forum Column - By David T. Bristow - Short-term Band-Aids are inadequate to combat the real long-term challenges posed to the judiciary in the resource-starved Inland Empire.

FORUM COLUMN

By David T. Bristow

      Is it possible that we are witnessing the death of the judicial branch?
      Certainly there is no more basic tenant in our system of government than the concept of its three branches: executive, legislative and judicial. This noble triangle of equals, each playing a crucial, complementary role has borne the weight of our democracy effortlessly since its incept...

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