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Judges and Judiciary

Mar. 14, 2008

Time to Leave?

Judges who don't know when to quit have been an infrequent feature of courts across the nation, difficult to deal with at the time but in retrospect greatly enriching legal lore.

By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      Judges who don't know when to quit have been an infrequent feature of courts across the nation, difficult to deal with at the time but in retrospect greatly enriching legal lore.
      California Supreme Court Justice Marshall F. McComb slipped into senile dementia during the mid-1970s, often sleeping in court and exhibiting what the Commission o...

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