By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
OAKLAND - It was a rare tranquil morning in Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert D. McGuiness' courtroom. A scheduled civil trial had been postponed, no lawyers with motions were clamoring for attention, the phone was silent.
In his chambers, alone with his baseball memorabilia including a large Lego ballpark, McGuiness, 64, briefly marveled at the calm. "The quiet you see here is hardly the nature... (continued)