Dec. 3, 2013
I hear voices
In decades past, before the ubiquity of the disembodied voice, we heard the old-fashioned voice. Remember?
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice
2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
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In decades past, before the ubiquity of the disembodied voice, we heard the old-fashioned voice. Remember? That was the voice that came from the mouth of a person we saw. And that person saw us. Take, for example, a judge informing counsel her ruling in a law and motion matter. "Demurrer sustained ... without leave." Damn!
Sometimes you got a few minutes advance notice. The tentative rulin...
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