Profile Judge Grillo

Описание: Alameda County Superior Court judge talks about the principles he employs in running his courtroom.

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Judicial Profile: Evelio Grillo

COURT: Alameda County Superior

APPOINTED: Nov. 7, 2003, by Gov. Gray Davis

BORN: Sept. 1, 1952

LAW SCHOOL: Harvard Law School, 1985

PREVIOUS JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE: Alameda County Municipal Court pro tem judge for two years in the early 1990s; Alameda County Superior Court discovery referee, 1993-2003

Evelio Grillo has seen firsthand what can happen to kids from dysfunctional households. Back in the 1970s, he put himself through college by working in a juvenile lockup.

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judge Grillo are there any principles by which you run your court


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yes there are the


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I think that it's very important when you run in a courtroom


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that you make every effort to make sure


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that everyone who comes to your court to have a case


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heard leads feeling that their case was heard


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it never ceases to amaze me


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I'll you can be making a decision that


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really really impact someone's life it can be


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taking someone's house from them after foreclosure


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it can be


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requiring them to pay debtor have their wages garnished


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you can be making a decision


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that as devastating business consequences for someone


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but if that individual


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that person feels that their case was heard in the two


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after hearing them decided case based on the law


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most people accepted


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day I think that's one of the great things about


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our system dispute resolution is the acceptance that people have


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when


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they feel they've been her you uni to our system adjusts I think is that one


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of the reasons why you tend to issue


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many written opinion that is one of the reasons


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in summer the cases of course in required to issue them


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by law a statement decision by law but even in summer the smaller cases


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where you could issue and water just saying grant or deny it think sometimes


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it's important to you


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walk through even if it's only in a few sentences or paragraphs


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what you decided why you decided it


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the it goes to the litigants acceptance is the result and also


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the feeling that they have a having her