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Judge with 38 years on the bench recalls first-day case involving unpaid parking tickets
Summary
A judge said a case from his first day on the bench — involving a woman with three children who owed about $300 in parking tickets — remains with him decades later. He said his father told him to show compassion, and that he never treated someone that way again.
An interviewer asked a judge with 38 years on the bench whether there was a particular case he still thinks about. The judge replied, "I get upset even thinking about it. I felt crumbled at that moment. I've never forgotten that. I, to this day, and I was on the bench for 38 years, I still think of that case. It's my first day on the bench."
The judge described the case: "I was on the bench and I asked my dad who was…
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