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...week ago, Leon County circuit court judge N. Sanders Sauls was going about his business, hearing domestic-violence cases in nearby Wakulla County, when a computer randomly assigned him a colossal headache: the presidential-election contest that has since brought the eyes of the world into Sauls' courtroom. When reporters started scrambling to profile him, the judge didn't even have a resume to give them. Instead, he handed out a list of friends who could vouch for him. Among his hunting buddies: Dexter Douglass, the courtly Floridian who is one of Gore's lead lawyers. Douglass says he gets...
...Certainly the counts were off to a rocky start. In the Leon County Public Library in Tallahassee, the 9,000 Miami-Dade undervotes - already separated out from the general pile weeks ago - were mere hours from yielding their secrets. Four teams of two circuit judges each had rolled up their sleeves first thing Saturday morning and promised to be done by nightfall, with the tough-but-fair vote-by-vote Palm Beach standard in place and the final number headed toward reliability...
...Florida Supremes are back to being the veep's last best shot at the White House after Leon County court spokesman Terre Cass, at 2:15 p.m., finally delivered twin rulings from judges Terry Lewis and Nikki Clark on the Martin County and Seminole County absentee ballot application cases. The punishment, said the judges, didn't fit the crime...
...what the vice president says could be his last legal stand in this drawn-out election, the Gore team presented its appeal of Leon County Circuit Court Judge Sanders Sauls' ruling, which dismissed Gore's contest of the Florida election results. And because Gore's lawyers had to show some flaw in Sauls' decision or interpretation of the law, it was the judge's opinion itself that sustained the most intensive scrutiny during the 90-minute session...
...Their task? First, to convince the Florida Supreme Court to formally accept their appeal. Then, to persuade the Justices that in ruling against Gore's contest of Florida's election results, Leon County Circuit Court Judge Sanders Sauls abused his judicial discretion and relied upon a flawed legal standard, misinterpreting Florida's election law, which, according to Gore lawyers, specifically allows recounts in very close elections. "If this state's contest provision is to have any meaning," the Gore brief states, "the meaning must be this: It is a mechanism for determining if state authorities certified the wrong candidate...