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Your article states that since Paul Halvonik is a judge and his wife Deborah a lawyer, "they were spared the humiliation of booking, fingerprinting and mug-shooting...
...couple were charged with cultivation of marijuana, a felony, and with possession, a misdemeanor. Because the coke was discovered in her desk, Mrs. Halvonik was also charged with possession of cocaine, a felony. Since Halvonik is a judge and his wife a lawyer, they were spared the humiliation of booking, fingerprinting and mug-shooting; free without bail on their own recognizance, they face trial...
...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...
...written a string of rubber checks and had several times been accused of malpractice. Last week Brown appointed an avowed homosexual to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, exposing the Governor, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, to further criticism. And for all his impressive legal credentials, even Halvonik was not everyone's idea of an appellate judge. A jazz player who moved his piano into his Sacramento office in 1975, when he worked for the Governor, Halvonik, who sports a Pancho Villa mustache, had once before been caught with a marijuana cigarette, but on that occasion the charge...
This time around the Halvonik case will probably wind up as a scriptwriter might have composed it. One day after his arrest, by pure coincidence, the California Supreme Court let stand a San Diego appellate court's ruling that police use of such devices as the Bushnell Spacemaster to gather evidence is unconstitutional, an Orwellian breach of a citizen's right to privacy. Thus Halvonik and his wife could be acquitted, leaving him free either to stay on the bench or to return to private practice and defend exactly the kind of case in which...