Monday, January 16, 2017
How does Spokane get such good judges?
Judge Cozza has died rather young of a heart attack. The obit about his death was open for comments, and all of the comments are strongly positive. A couple are from young would-be thugs who were turned back to a normal life by Cozza's careful actions.
An obit for other types of local officials would draw primarily negative comments, and the comments would be perfectly valid.
In doing jury service three times I watched several judges in action. (Not Cozza.) All of them were excellent. Wise, commonsensical and rational. The persecuting and defense attorneys were self-destructively stupid, but the judge worked around their idiocy to achieve sane results.
How does the county attract and keep so many GOOD judges when the city officials are uniformly corrupt and incompetent?
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