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  <title>A Criminal Waste of Space</title>
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	<modified>2008-5-02T17:12:42Z</modified>
  <tagline>Calfornia Associate Justice William W. Bedsworth A Criminal Waste of Space monthly column irreverant look at legal matters</tagline>

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		<title>Schaddenfreude a la Spitzer</title>
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		<modified>2008-5-02T17:12:42Z</modified>
		<issued>2008-5-02T17:12:42-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2008:76</id>
		<created>2008-5-02T17:12:42-06:00</created>
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		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
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		  <email>william.bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[My wife and I work together. This means I get to spend pretty much every minute of my life with her. This sometimes gets in the way because, of course, it means I have to spend so much time giving thanks to a higher power for my incredible good fortune. Other than that, it is the unalloyed blessing everyone who knows Kelly imagines it to be.1For one thing, it makes for some terrific conversation on the way to work. One morning in March, for example, we spent the entire 35 minutes talking about t...]]> 
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		<title>Gorilla Warfare</title>
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		<modified>2008-3-27T16:48:16Z</modified>
		<issued>2008-3-27T16:48:16-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2008:75</id>
		<created>2008-3-27T16:48:16-06:00</created>
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		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>william.bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[I must admit I was startled. I had not expected to see a gorilla when I left the golf course. And I certainly hadn&#39;t expected to be within 20 feet of one.1 Yet there he was, standing on a street corner in Irvine, swaying rhythmically from side to side, listening to his iPod.He was holding a large, arrow-shaped yellow sign that said, &quot;Homes for Sale.&quot; At the risk of sounding anthropomorphic, I had the distinct impression he was smiling, despite the stultifying boredom of standing on...]]> 
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		<title>The Korean Alien Penumbra Conundrum</title>
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		<modified>2008-1-04T15:07:52Z</modified>
		<issued>2008-1-04T15:07:52-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2008:74</id>
		<created>2008-1-04T15:07:52-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>William.Bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[On October 5th of last year, I spoke to the American Bar Association&#39;s International Law Section in London. On October 19th, I spoke to the Nebraska State Bar Convention in Lincoln.In between, I spent a week in a decompression chamber to keep from getting the bends.I had a great time in both venues. I officiated two NHL games in London and took in the Nebraska-Texas A&amp;M football game in Lincoln. I was a pig in slop.In many ways, the two experiences were much the same. In London, I had gr...]]> 
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		<title>Heir of the Dog</title>
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		<modified>2007-11-21T19:36:26Z</modified>
		<issued>2007-11-21T19:36:26-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2007:73</id>
		<created>2007-11-21T19:36:26-06:00</created>
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		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>William.Bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[I had three dogs as a boy.&nbsp; All were named Trouble.&nbsp; This was because my dad named all the dogs and he was not entirely convinced by my mom&#39;s &quot;A boy should have a dog&quot; argument.In fact, Dad disliked pretty much everything about dogs.&nbsp; And cats.&nbsp; And ferrets and hamsters and birds and... well, let&#39;s just say the concept of pets was one Dad never fully bought into.&nbsp; He was not only a flaming specist, he was a little paranoid about it:&nbsp; He seemed conv...]]> 
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		<title>Railroaded</title>
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		<modified>2007-9-10T19:42:04Z</modified>
		<issued>2007-9-10T19:42:04-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2007:72</id>
		<created>2007-9-10T19:42:04-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>William.Bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[My first year criminal law class spent very little time on the elements of crimes and a lot on the &quot;philosophy of punishment.&quot; I griped about the curriculum and complained that we should spend less time studying the music of the spheres and more time learning how to distinguish battery from bottomry.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I was twenty and knew a lot.Forty years later, I know considerably less - a fact you may previously have had the occasion to remark upon. I&#39;ve learned how tough it c...]]> 
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		<title>Skidding Through the Learning Curve</title>
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		<modified>2007-8-01T19:25:35Z</modified>
		<issued>2007-8-01T19:25:35-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2007:71</id>
		<created>2007-8-01T19:25:35-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>William.Bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[Years ago, when my daughter Megan was in high school, I made the mistake of mentioning that when I was her age, I didn&#39;t have to learn about the Vietnam War because it hadn&#39;t yet started.&nbsp; She was, understandably, outraged about the unfairness of having to learn 30 more years of history than I had to.&nbsp; We got into quite a debate about how a just God could allow something so unfair in Her universe, but I was at something of a disadvantage, since I was pretty busy being embarrass...]]> 
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		<title>Start Spreading the News</title>
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		<modified>2007-6-28T16:37:14Z</modified>
		<issued>2007-6-28T16:37:14-08:00</issued>
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		<created>2007-6-28T16:37:14-06:00</created>
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		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>William.Bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[My career on the bench has now reached twenty years, but it includes very little family law work.&nbsp; Turns out if you deny just one divorce, they stop sending them to you.But that is apparently not the rule in other states.&nbsp; Or at least one state.&nbsp; According to the Associated Press, &quot;New York is the only state that won&#39;t allow the speedy dissolution of a marriage without proof that one spouse is somehow at fault.&quot;&nbsp; God bless those New Yorkers.&nbsp; They know that...]]> 
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		<title>Men Left Panting for Clues</title>
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		<modified>2007-6-08T14:20:24Z</modified>
		<issued>2007-6-08T14:20:24-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2007:69</id>
		<created>2007-6-08T14:20:24-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>William.Bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[My gender has a hard time with pants. I don&#39;t know why this is. As body coverings go, pants are decidedly low-tech. You would think a gender that can - more or less - cope with shoelaces and French cuffs and four-in-hand knots could manage pants. I mean, once you get out of the way of the zipper, how tough can it be? And yet, my kind - conquerors of empires, builders of cathedrals, golfers on the moon, architects and successful defenders of a social structure which prefers them over the othe...]]> 
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		<title>A Criminal Use of Waste</title>
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		<modified>2007-5-31T16:04:03Z</modified>
		<issued>2007-5-31T16:04:03-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2007:68</id>
		<created>2007-5-31T16:04:03-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>William.Bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[I don&#39;t generally use this space for education.&nbsp; I&#39;m having enough trouble getting myself educated without worrying about others.But every so often, a case comes along that includes so much wisdom and information that even I - a hopeless Philistine, generally tone-deaf to cultural values - understand immediately that it deserves a wider audience.&nbsp; Such a case is Navajo Nation v. U. S. Forest Service (07 DJDAR 3335 (March 13, 2007)).I don&#39;t know how well you keep up with the...]]> 
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		<title>Working a Tough Room</title>
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		<modified>2007-5-03T14:27:09Z</modified>
		<issued>2007-5-03T14:27:09-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2007:67</id>
		<created>2007-5-03T14:27:09-06:00</created>
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		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
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		  <email>William.Bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[The world is turning into a tough room in which to do comedy.The day after his State of the Union address, President Bush flew in Air Force One - a Boeing 747 - to Wilmington, Delaware - a distance of 98 miles - to give a speech on energy conservation.&nbsp; Talk about a mixed message.&nbsp; I don&#39;t know how much jet fuel a Boeing 747 burns up going 98 miles, but I suspect that if the President had led a convoy of Humvees to Wilmington and set fire to every gas station he passed along the wa...]]> 
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