U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson of the Northern District of California’s vast success on the bench is well known, and now, given his impending retirement, well celebrated. Cases ranging from making Pelican Bay State Prison less inhumane, through the recent PG&E conviction, to reducing the enormous overcrowding in California’s state prisons (affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court), as well as the oversight of Oakland’s notorious police improprieties, are legend.

What is much less well known is the great jurist’s prowess at sea, in fishing the western waters, and on land, in devastating western poker tables. Your author, fortunate enough to witness some of these feats, intends to correct this failure by recounting, under oath if necessary, a few of these highly unlikely, but absolutely true, activities.

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