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Judges and Judiciary

Jul. 1, 2019

Certainty and solace — elusive

They profoundly influence our lives. They can be found all over the world. When not fulfilling their mission, they blend in with the general populace so as to be undetectable. They are young, old, of different ethnicities, political points of view, personalities and dispositions. They are fat, lean, gregarious, cranky, loquacious or taciturn, sometimes both. They're called... trial judges.

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They profoundly influence our lives. They can be found all over the world. When not fulfilling their mission, they blend in with the general populace so as to be undetectable. They are young, old, of different ethnicities, political points of view, personalities and dispositions. They are fat, lean, gregarious, cranky, loquacious or taciturn, sometimes both. Their cover is so complete that even among themselves they can rarely detect that a stranger is one of ...

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