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     We weren't there (or were we?), but we hear Judge Gardiner addressed an Hispanic lawyer's luncheon on Thursday.  Apparently, the "new & improved" magistrates is now officially "more of the same."  Despite Vic Tobin's public commitments to providing timely legal hearings to the recently arrested, and despite the hard work of the SAO, PD, and BSO to fix the ancien regime's oldest bugaboo, nothing will be changing anytime soon.The culprit?  Judge Gardiner supposedly blamed it on the budget crunch.  Without money to build out or refurbish a sparkling clean "First Appearances Courtroom," IT CAN'T BE DONE!  No, the Chief Judge can't simply point his imperial finger at a junior judge and say "you are henceforth the full time magistrates judge...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on March 15, 2008 (boomark / email).