See post 100 about Bright’s appointment to the case.
Judge B was very smart, but even back then, back in the mid-90s, he was an interesting cat. You had to bend over backwards 175% to please him. He’d rip anything and everything you did wrong, even if it was 90+% correct, and as long as at the end of the lecture about the 10% wrong, you said, “ok” or “I’ll fix it right away,” then he would would turn into sugar sweet. You’d get 15-20 minutes of railing you over the coals, then 3-5 minutes at the end of sugar sweet. But, he was in his midish 70s (think McCain age, but a little older), and he wasn’t 100% there on remembering things....we had to remind him of things often, even back then. Kinda like the long-term memory was sharp as a tack, but recent things were fuzzier...this was seriously 12+ years ago...I can’t imagine that he wrote this - he’s 90 for gosh sakes!! He just signed on as the killer in the appeal to make it go to the Sec of State way...