SACRAMENTO -- "They used to have [executions] in the lobby," said Superior Court Judge David I. Brown, nodding down the stone staircase to the first floor.
Brown is standing near his courtroom in Sacramento's Hall of Justice Building, the 1916 structure that's home to the court's Civil Law and Motion Department. The 48,000 square-foot former police headquarters is a bit of a mashup, with later modernist expansions of sta... (continued)