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In Recess

Nov. 29, 2019

No Nonsense

Adversity doesn't knock judge off a bicycle, or her courtroom program.

No Nonsense

Surrounded by a swarm of sleeping cyclists, Judge Tara Flanagan woke with a start.

The Alameda County bench officer had passed out 3 1/2 hours earlier on a cot in a French school gymnasium, expecting volunteers managing a rest stop on the legendary Paris-Brest-Paris bicycle race to roust her after 90 minutes. That scheduled 4:30 a.m. wakeup never happened.

"I knew something was horribly wrong bec...

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