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Judges and Judiciary

May 5, 2006

The Ten Questions Every Judge Must Reflect On

Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - A week ago Monday morning, I was sitting in a class with 13 enthusiastic, new judicial officers, discussing the kind of judge we want to be versus the kind we swear we never, ever will be - not in a million years, pinky-swear.

Forum Column

By Lynn Duryee
     
      A week ago Monday morning, I was sitting in a class with 13 enthusiastic, new judicial officers, discussing the kind of judge we want to be versus the kind we swear we never, ever will be - not in a million years, pinky-swear.
      "Arrogance" was unanimously selected as the worst trait a judge could have - worse than drunken...

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