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Aug. 29, 2006

Taming Judicial Butterflies

When veteran San Diego County Superior Court Judge Lantz Lewis moved last year from the criminal courts to family law, he worried about his ability to handle the challenging assignment.

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San Diego County Superior Court
By Claude Walbert
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      EL CAJON - After 16 years as a judge, mostly presiding over criminal cases, Lantz Lewis can talk about judicial butterflies with the comfortable assurance of a master lepidopterist.
      New judges expect to feel a bellyful of fluttering wings. But the phenomenon can afflict even a veteran bench officer, the San Diego County Sup... (continued)

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