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Oct. 3, 2011

Thomas P. Nugent

Judge Thomas P. Nugent says he would have been content living the life of a beer-drinking blue collar worker. But parental coaxing got him through business and law school. Now he juggles as many as 800 cases at a time. -->

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By Pat Broderick

Daily Journal Staff Writer

VISTA - Young Tom Nugent would have been happy to spend his days working a factory job, playing cards, drinking beer and hanging with his pals.

"I was quite content," said the Norwood, Mass., native, who is now 77 and a San Diego County Superior Court judge. "I had a reasonably good income for a kid who had no responsibilities. I could always afford the gas for my old car, and a six-pack of beer ... (continued)

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