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...Florida litigants, in a paneled courtroom in Leon County, labored late into the night, focusing their final arguments on the legitimacy of manual recounts, and where they were more reliable than machine tabulations...
...Sunday morning at 9 sharp, the Leon County circuit court judge got right down to business, asking Bush's legal team to consider trimming their bulging witness list and tapping his fingers on his lectern. "I want to get your case finished this morning, counsel...
...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 ré sum é 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...
...omen department, even a late-running football game couldn't save Gore's segment from running, at 7:30, opposite his own lawyer's closing arguments. It was that kind of day in Leon County, as Gore v. clock took a few pounds of flesh out of Bush's witnesses but took forever getting them...
...while the first day of testimony in Al Gore's contest of the Florida election results didn't go quite as long as everyone expected - an increasingly cranky Judge Sanders Sauls adjourned his Leon County courtroom for the night at 6:15 p.m., citing staff hunger pangs - it went long enough to establish a decidedly discouraging trend for Gore's legal team...