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May 6, 2024
I didn’t do it
Judicial opinions should be clear, comprehensible, and authentic. Otherwise, opinions should take a TV drug commercial approach and list their own set of side effect warnings.
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
Have you watched television drug commercials? Typically, the viewer sees “elderly” (hope that is permissible) people (or should I say persons of advanced age?) and mixed genders and races having “fun.” “Fun” for these joyful seniors includes hiking, golfing, barbecuing, and other things doddering old folks do not always do well, if at all. In pantomime, we see them engaging in chatter, laughter, gestures with friendly pats on the back, waives and hugs. Flashing on the...