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Dec. 18, 2007

Making Minimalism Work

Judge Franklin Stephenson prefers his modest courtroom in the outlying community of Manteca to an appointment in a more urban area.

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By Joe Mullin
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      MANTECA - Superior Court Judge Franklin Stephenson has been on the bench only since 2002, but he was disciplining some small-time crooks decades earlier.
      "A lot of kids played cowboys and Indians," Stephenson explained recently. " I developed a game called Court."
      Different kids were assigned to be... (continued)

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