U.S. District Judge David Carter and I were rookies together in the Orange County district attorney’s office. Dave was a decorated war hero who ran marathons and I was an overweight ex-college ballplayer. Other than that, we had nothing in common.
But at the end of the day, we’d gather in the office library with the other fledglings and try to figure out how we were going to get through the next day’s testimony in the DUI or petty theft case over which we were sweating bullets and coughing up blood. One of the last things you develop as a young lawyer is perspective; we worked those cases like our citizenship was on the line.
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