Word: benching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With four minutes to play, Dobbs cleared the bench, treating his seniors to a career-ending ovation from the crowed...
...just three years on the superior-court bench here in Visalia ((a town of 80,000 situated 181 miles north of Los Angeles)), you've got into a lot of trouble because of your so-called creative sentencing. You've made defendants quit smoking, attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings or see a psychiatrist as conditions of probation. You ordered a thief to wear a T shirt proclaiming he was on probation. You told a man who beat his ex-wife to leave town. You sentenced a man who assaulted someone to donate his car to a shelter for battered women...
...bench, and you see this guy sitting there in the courtroom...
...Nineteen feet. I ducked underneath the bench and waited for him to come around the corner and shoot at me again. A lot was going through my head very, very fast. I thought I was dying. I was feeling for the blood, and I couldn't find the blood. Then I saw the bullet hole in the wall above me and realized that he'd missed. I couldn't decide what to do, whether to beg or fight...
Imagine a busy street corner in downtown Oakland. Some bandana-wearing homes are chilling by a bench. A televangelist pleads for money from behind the window of a hardware store. A Red Hot Chili Peppers album is blaring out of a six foot boom box, and the merciless Californian sun is beating down upon the whole scene like a catalyst for a violent reaction...