VENTURA — Justice Martin J. Tangeman spent the 2011-12 school year bantering with Italian law students about the pros and cons of the American legal system versus the Italian one.
They wanted to know why Americans have rules of evidence and what their “fascination with guns is all about,” Tangeman recalled. Having spent two decades as a trial lawyer and 10 years on the bench, he usually had a good answer, but it was adm... (continued)