LOS ANGELES -- Before she was appointed to the state Court of Appeal, Justice Anne H. Egerton spent many mornings in an empty courtroom stressing out.
It may have been the chaos of being a trial judge in the Los Angeles County criminal court, the anxiety of having to get all the players in place -- the attorney from Burbank, the defendant from county jail, et cetera -- so that the 12 people volunteering their time to adj... (continued)