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Mar. 13, 2018

Friendly Procedure

Sierra County Judge Yvette Durant invokes the rules, kindly, because they are important.

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Friendly Procedure
Sierra County (Downieville)

DOWNIEVILLE — If Yvette Durant were a better singer, she might never have become an attorney.

“I can’t sing a lick to save my life,” said the Sierra County Superior Court judge. “When you’re a theater major, to go to graduate school, you’ve got to be able to sing, dance and act. That singing part really held me up.”

Instead, Durant took her undergraduate theater degree from the Univer... (continued)

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