Word: california
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...follower of police fiction knows well, it does not always pay to call the cops. Paul N. Halvonik, 40, a California Courts of Appeal justice, and his lawyer wife Deborah, 37, apparently do not read police fiction. Returning to their home in Oakland Hills early one evening, Mrs. Halvonik found that a burglar had stolen $1,450 worth of television and video-tape equipment. She called the cops. The Oakland P.D., in the person of Patrolman Monte Beers, responded in short order. While checking out the perpetrator's point of entry, Officer Beers later reported, he spotted some long...
Paul Halvonik, who had a respected record as an American Civil Liberties Union counsel before his judicial appointment, is a longtime friend and former aide to Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., who named him to the bench in 1978. Previously he had been California's first state public defender and a state deputy attorney general. Fellow jurists who know his work have nothing but praise for him. Says San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Harry W. Low, until recently president of the California Judges' Association: "He's got an excellent legal mind and a good sense...
...incident could not have occurred at a more unfortunate time. The California Supreme Court, long regarded as one of the best state courts in the nation, is in the midst of a long-drawn, harrowing investigation involving charges that it allowed political considerations to influence the timing of important decisions. Moreover, the Oakland scandal inevitably raised questions about the quality of the Governor's judicial appointments. One Brown nominee for an appellate court vacancy had to withdraw after the Sacramento Union revealed that he had written a string of rubber checks and had several times been accused of malpractice...
Candidates who have not yet received invitations include Gen. Alexander Haig, former Supreme Commander of NATO, Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) and Benjamin Fernandez, a chicano California businessman...
...California Angels staved off elimination and beat the Baltimore Orioles, 4-3, in Anaheim last night, scoring twice in the bottom of the ninth...