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r i Most families will continue tra-- WEB& UHEBKi I dition and spend Thanksgiving HmH of roast turkey and visiting rel-- BhT- JB- B atives. However, some nave BBBpS$ fi9 cooks and talking with Strang- - SBfflH9nH J STVTE h 1012 LO COLUMBI Bridge battle ilrr The City Council was already ' mJJgbSSBm& hll I flooded with controversial is- - KiHHK& P sues at Monday night's meet-- wHnlBifBBffl! Bi ing, when another problem JHHBHHbH arose: bridging the gap , be-- 3BHBE7? SBB tween the city's proposal of HgriSjK: VWH moving the Rock Quarry KisiSSi bridge and residents' concerns HHBilSiw"" that the move will only cause S3ffl8flpr'H " more traffic. See Page 8A. mTi'S I I ilJ? RICAL SOCIETY ( WRY UMC I A, 140. 65211 z ZZHZ Tl Rewarded SSfe : When practice began in Au- - -- r' tiB3mi gust, many Missouri football Vw J& p , fans were disgruntled with -- VJSp jagf Ji Coach Warren Powers. But && TtfeyUWial Powers, with a new staff and 4" ' wiPiB renewed zeal, rose head and " QV 8 shoulders above the crowd and Mm was named Big Eight Coach of IH the Year by The Associated StbF Press Tuesday. See Page IB. Vs. -- rAfifll ' HBHMHaiBBHHBHinaiiaaiBHiHaBiiBnaHBlimHnuni 76th Year No. 61 ! Good Morning! It's Wednesday, November 23, 1983 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents iiBSEcHk' w-- j. fcj BMHHwbBhIHBEBBHIDHHSBBHHBII First settlers The pilgrims and the Indians played on the schoolgrounds at Blueridge Elementary school, Tuesday. First- grader- s, Teri Flee- - Jim Lemon nor, 2502 Northridge Drive and Christie Stone, 47 Vicki Drive dressed up as traditional Thanksgiving characters Chopper crash doesn't stop air- ev- ac service ByAIMarklln MIssourlan staff writer Nightmares usually happen in-doors at night, but Sharon Charles had one in her yard at mid- afterno- on. ." I heard it first I think everyone could. It wasn't sounding right at all," she said. " My daughter and I had just walked in the house and it seemed like it fell out of nowhere. " The earth was quaking as it came down. The whole house and the earth shook ( at the impact). It rolled and hit a tree in the yard and fuel spilled all over the house. The people inside were begging to be pulled out. It was terrible." On Monday, a University Hospital Staff for Life helicopter, which is used as an ambulance, lost power and crashed on Main Street in Sweet Springs, Mo., injuring three. Columbia pilot Paul Calloway, 37, was reported Tuesday in good condi-tion at University Hospital with back injuries. Flight nurse Sheila Re- lnha- rt, 22, of Columbia, sustained back and leg injuries, and emergen-cy medical technician Elton Rogers, 21, of Moberly, suffered back inju-ries. Reinhart and Rogers were list-ed in good condition. Sweet Springs Police Chief R. C. Acox said the helicopter, an AStar 350D, struck the sidewalk in front of 406 Main St. The aircraft then bounced into the street, rolled and skidded into a tree in the Charles' side yard. Fuel sprayed from the ship, dousing the house, yard and the helicopter. " The people inside ( the helicopt-er) were begging, ' Please, God, get me out,' " Charles said. They feared the spilled fuel would ignite, she said. Charles, a registered nurse, said she was afraid to move them be-cause it might cause further injury. " I said, ' No sir,' and told them help was on the way." Police reached the scene of the ac-cident within two minutes, Acox said. The injured crew members were treated initially by Sweet Springs Hospital staff and later flown to University Hospital by a he-licopter on loan from Kansas City, Mo. Cause of the aircraft's power fail-ure has not yet been determined In-vestigators with the National Trans-portation Safety Board in Kansas City, Mo., are documenting the cir-cumstances of the accident, accord-ing to Bob Johnson, a spokesman for the board. A decision probably will not be rendered for three to four months. Associate Hospital Director Jerry Royer said air ambulance service would continue at University Hospi-tal, utilizing a backup helicopter. Council goes west; landfill locals vow to continue fighting By William Heaster Missourian staff writer The winds of City Council opinion on the choice of a new landfill blew west instead of east Monday night, but the promise of a fight still hangs in the air Residents near the proposed west landfill site vowed Monday that the council's long- await- ed decision did not settle the issue. The next battle-field, according to leading west- sit- e opponent David Sapp, may well be the court And if the issue required further complication, the word " condemna-tion" often heard since the city's endeavor to find a home for the land-fill began may itself take on new meaning. In a letter to the council last week, James Butcher, attorney for the west- sit- e residents, says his cheats are ready to take any legal action to stop a landfill near their homes That includes " inverse condemna-tion to recover the depreciated value of their properties,' the letter says The city is " asking the landowners in that area to subsidize that deci-sion by having their property depre-ciated m order that the city may save a little money on the initial pru- cha- se of the land," the letter contin-ues. Real estate appraisers, it notes, say the value of homes near the site will dimmish substantially when the landfill opens The city would save about $ 50,000 by choosing the west site. The city holds an option to buy the west site from Boles Land Ltd for $ 400 per acre while the east site has a con-demnation price of $ 550 per acre. But to judge savings purely by the cost of the land is too simplistic, Sapp said Monday. The east site has 20 percent great-er waste capacity than the west site, he said, and thus would last much longer. Transportation is another matter that should be figured into costs, he added The east site is about seven- tent- hs of a mile closer to Route B than the west site While the difference may seem miniscule, Sapp said, the savinp on fuel can be great over the life of a landfill Tune also is a key to the west site argument It was the threat of an extended court battle over the proposed east site that convinced the council to change its tactics Monday. A refusal by one owner of the east site to ac-cept the city's offer of $ 550 per acre and the urgent need to find a new landfill before the old one reaches capacity were all it took. But before a landfill at the west site becomes reahtv. the city must purchase 1 9 miles of an old hauling road so garbage trucks can get there The road, once used by the Pea bo-dy Coal Co , crosses three farms Sapp said Monday he doesn't think the farmers will cooperate with the city in selling that part of their prop-erty Thus, the condemnation process may have to start all over again, he said, whde the city already is seve-ral months into condemning the east site " The argument that going to the west site is quicker than going to the east site is wrong," Sapp said R C Russell is one of the landown-ers whose farm would be split in half by the city using the haul road Con-tacted last Saturday before the coun-cil's vote on the west site, Russell was upset that city officials had j et to discuss the acquisition of the road with him. " No one has had the decency to talk to me about it," he said " It ag-gravates the devil out ofme " Russell said a road that splits his land would be a great inconvenience in his everyday farming duties Although Russell said he was tak-ing a wait- and- s- ee attitude on wheth-er he would negotiate or fight the city on buying part of his land, he was not enthusiastic about it " They can do anything they like," he said of the city government, " but I don't have to like it " A second farmer, James Heller, also disliked the idea of seeing his land split by a road for the city ' s use. but he said last Saturday that he would be willing to sell that part of his land if a decentoffer was made Heller added that any deal with the city would have to include farm-ers being allowed to continue using the road " We use it all the time dur-ing the farming season," he said Karleen Crenshaw, the third land-owner who would be affected by the city's purchasing of the road, had no comment when reached Tuesday Columbia Public Works Director Ray Beck said negotiations with the landowners could not begin without council approval We're trying to keep the steps in order," he said ' Once we get the site nailed down, then we can start negotiating with the property own- - ers Beck said he understood a road cutting through farm land created problems, " but the appraisers would See RESIDENTS, Page 8A Judges work hard to project image of neutrality 8y Margaret DeRosby Mtosourlan stall writer As far as Presiding Circuit Court Judge Frank Conley is concerned, there are only two people who ever possessed all the desirable qualities that make up an ideal judge. One was in the Old Testament and named Solomon; the other was Jesus Christ himself. . " Ideal to me is a plateau beyond fair and impartial," Conley says. " Fair and impartial is what we're trying to achieve. Hopefully we do that more so than we don't." Conley and his four judicial broth-ers and sisters of the court are the fi-nal word in law enforcement for this hajf of the 13th Circuit of Boone and Callaway counties. They are the judge and more often than not, the Jury. Yet none of the five admits to being entirely flawless. " It's the same question as ' Is there a perfect human being?' " says Associate Circuit Judge Joan PlnneD. " Who of us would ever claim to be perfect?" " All of us stride to be that ideal person." Judge Ellen Roper adds. " But ft would 6e difficult to be ev-erything you consider ideal 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. I'm sure we're all human and that's probably something that people do not recog-nize." Since elected judges in Boone County don't campaign on the basis of their humanity, candidates must emphasize tangible as well as intan-gible aspects in their platforms. When polled for qualities the judges consider most desirable, im-partiality and judicial, integrity ranked at the top of the list " You've got to have someone who is trusted.' 7 Judge Gene Hamilton says. " There's enough of a lack of faith in our system of justice now. And very often, one ( judge) can de-stroy the reputation of a whole group whodo have integrity." . According to the judges, other de-sirables include: Patience. k-- Thoughtfulness and intellectual curiosity. " You don't want to sit there luce a dunderhead," Conley says. " You want to have a will-ingness to occasionally get into books andlook." Total honesty, independence and industry. v A sense of humor. " You can sort out quite a bit, what is actually contempt of court and what is just an unintentional comment," says Pin- nel- l. " Frequently people say, ' Yes, sir' to me but I don't pay any atten-tion to that because they are just taken up with their own problems." Flexibility. " I don't think we have to throw out everything from the . past," Conley says. " But we have to be willing to adapt." f " A good manager of time and resources," Associate Circuit Judge Stan Clay says. " A judge needs to get cases bandied and decided promptly. If not it gives the public a bad image of the judicial process." But wjofle fairness and impartiali-ty rank as the most paramount ob-jectives, the five judges admit these qualities must be tempered by a cer-tain degree of sensitivity. " You have to be sensitive to cer-tain things that occur or you're not a human being," Conley says. " But it's being sensitive without it inter-fering with your ability to do what you have to do." Hamilton believes judges should always have a sense of direction 11 when deciding cases since they often find themselves choosing the best answer from a limited number of al-ternatives. " If a judge can keep that sense of where he's going, I don't think he can be too sensitive," Hamilton says. " It's very important that the judge try to envision himself in the position of other people and not think ' I'm the greatest thing in the world because I'm the judge.' " But even an ideal judge, if he or she existed, soil is a human being and subject to human error, the judges acknowledge. Particularly in the most difficult cases, the right an-swer may not always be the best one. " Certainly I do not feel good about sending someone away for 20 or 30 years who is 17 or 18 years old," Roper says. " But nor do I feel good about what they did to the victim. So it's a double- edge- d sword. It is some-thing you think about but it's not an obsession with me. Yet it is the admittedly fallible judge who wields the power of af-fecting people's lives both on a per-sonal liberty basis as well as from a property standpoint. That sense of power carries with it a charismatic quality which follow-ers of the United States Supreme Court sometimes call the " cult of the robe." Conley downplays that sense of su-periority. " I suppose alot of people ascribe more to us than we have," he says. " But I don't think ( a judge) should take the power or the trappings of the office too seriously. I don't mean that you should be disrespectful. But taking yourself too seriously in the role is a mistake." Roper says she is guided by the Canon of Judicial Ethics in every-thing she does and is on constant vig- den- ce never to abuse her judicial power an act she finds particular-ly disreputable. " I would say that is the greatest fault I have seen in some of my brothers on the bench is that they get a real high from power and being able to tell someone what to do," she says. But Clay believes " Big Brother" is always watching even where judges are concerned " Everybody's got a boss," he says. " Certain judges have some power but there's always some check to it whether in the appellate court or at election tune " Hamilton emphasizes the impor-- i tance of humility in performing one's judicial duties " I think I have a certain job to do and maybe an important job but oth-er people have important jobs, too," Hamilton says. " If you start think-ing you're that important you very quickly lose touch with reality " The reality, Conley says, is that no judge will ever acquire all the qual-ities he thinks an ideal judge ought to have. " The qualities that nec-essarily make up a good judge are probably qualities that make a good person," he adds But that doesn't stop him from wondering aloud about the possible physical characteristics of a " better than good" judge, " He might be a man or a woman and he could be 5 foot, 2 inches, or 6 foot, 4 inches tall," Conley fanta-- . sizes. " He could have black hair, blonde hair . ." " He could be bald,'.' Hamilton adds, picking up the train of thought with a demure reference to himself. " An ideal judge could come in any size or shape," he says. " It's the qualities mat are important After all, justice is more than skin deep." t
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Title | Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1983-11-23 |
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Item.Transcript | r i Most families will continue tra-- WEB& UHEBKi I dition and spend Thanksgiving HmH of roast turkey and visiting rel-- BhT- JB- B atives. However, some nave BBBpS$ fi9 cooks and talking with Strang- - SBfflH9nH J STVTE h 1012 LO COLUMBI Bridge battle ilrr The City Council was already ' mJJgbSSBm& hll I flooded with controversial is- - KiHHK& P sues at Monday night's meet-- wHnlBifBBffl! Bi ing, when another problem JHHBHHbH arose: bridging the gap , be-- 3BHBE7? SBB tween the city's proposal of HgriSjK: VWH moving the Rock Quarry KisiSSi bridge and residents' concerns HHBilSiw"" that the move will only cause S3ffl8flpr'H " more traffic. See Page 8A. mTi'S I I ilJ? RICAL SOCIETY ( WRY UMC I A, 140. 65211 z ZZHZ Tl Rewarded SSfe : When practice began in Au- - -- r' tiB3mi gust, many Missouri football Vw J& p , fans were disgruntled with -- VJSp jagf Ji Coach Warren Powers. But && TtfeyUWial Powers, with a new staff and 4" ' wiPiB renewed zeal, rose head and " QV 8 shoulders above the crowd and Mm was named Big Eight Coach of IH the Year by The Associated StbF Press Tuesday. See Page IB. Vs. -- rAfifll ' HBHMHaiBBHHBHinaiiaaiBHiHaBiiBnaHBlimHnuni 76th Year No. 61 ! Good Morning! It's Wednesday, November 23, 1983 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents iiBSEcHk' w-- j. fcj BMHHwbBhIHBEBBHIDHHSBBHHBII First settlers The pilgrims and the Indians played on the schoolgrounds at Blueridge Elementary school, Tuesday. First- grader- s, Teri Flee- - Jim Lemon nor, 2502 Northridge Drive and Christie Stone, 47 Vicki Drive dressed up as traditional Thanksgiving characters Chopper crash doesn't stop air- ev- ac service ByAIMarklln MIssourlan staff writer Nightmares usually happen in-doors at night, but Sharon Charles had one in her yard at mid- afterno- on. ." I heard it first I think everyone could. It wasn't sounding right at all," she said. " My daughter and I had just walked in the house and it seemed like it fell out of nowhere. " The earth was quaking as it came down. The whole house and the earth shook ( at the impact). It rolled and hit a tree in the yard and fuel spilled all over the house. The people inside were begging to be pulled out. It was terrible." On Monday, a University Hospital Staff for Life helicopter, which is used as an ambulance, lost power and crashed on Main Street in Sweet Springs, Mo., injuring three. Columbia pilot Paul Calloway, 37, was reported Tuesday in good condi-tion at University Hospital with back injuries. Flight nurse Sheila Re- lnha- rt, 22, of Columbia, sustained back and leg injuries, and emergen-cy medical technician Elton Rogers, 21, of Moberly, suffered back inju-ries. Reinhart and Rogers were list-ed in good condition. Sweet Springs Police Chief R. C. Acox said the helicopter, an AStar 350D, struck the sidewalk in front of 406 Main St. The aircraft then bounced into the street, rolled and skidded into a tree in the Charles' side yard. Fuel sprayed from the ship, dousing the house, yard and the helicopter. " The people inside ( the helicopt-er) were begging, ' Please, God, get me out,' " Charles said. They feared the spilled fuel would ignite, she said. Charles, a registered nurse, said she was afraid to move them be-cause it might cause further injury. " I said, ' No sir,' and told them help was on the way." Police reached the scene of the ac-cident within two minutes, Acox said. The injured crew members were treated initially by Sweet Springs Hospital staff and later flown to University Hospital by a he-licopter on loan from Kansas City, Mo. Cause of the aircraft's power fail-ure has not yet been determined In-vestigators with the National Trans-portation Safety Board in Kansas City, Mo., are documenting the cir-cumstances of the accident, accord-ing to Bob Johnson, a spokesman for the board. A decision probably will not be rendered for three to four months. Associate Hospital Director Jerry Royer said air ambulance service would continue at University Hospi-tal, utilizing a backup helicopter. Council goes west; landfill locals vow to continue fighting By William Heaster Missourian staff writer The winds of City Council opinion on the choice of a new landfill blew west instead of east Monday night, but the promise of a fight still hangs in the air Residents near the proposed west landfill site vowed Monday that the council's long- await- ed decision did not settle the issue. The next battle-field, according to leading west- sit- e opponent David Sapp, may well be the court And if the issue required further complication, the word " condemna-tion" often heard since the city's endeavor to find a home for the land-fill began may itself take on new meaning. In a letter to the council last week, James Butcher, attorney for the west- sit- e residents, says his cheats are ready to take any legal action to stop a landfill near their homes That includes " inverse condemna-tion to recover the depreciated value of their properties,' the letter says The city is " asking the landowners in that area to subsidize that deci-sion by having their property depre-ciated m order that the city may save a little money on the initial pru- cha- se of the land," the letter contin-ues. Real estate appraisers, it notes, say the value of homes near the site will dimmish substantially when the landfill opens The city would save about $ 50,000 by choosing the west site. The city holds an option to buy the west site from Boles Land Ltd for $ 400 per acre while the east site has a con-demnation price of $ 550 per acre. But to judge savings purely by the cost of the land is too simplistic, Sapp said Monday. The east site has 20 percent great-er waste capacity than the west site, he said, and thus would last much longer. Transportation is another matter that should be figured into costs, he added The east site is about seven- tent- hs of a mile closer to Route B than the west site While the difference may seem miniscule, Sapp said, the savinp on fuel can be great over the life of a landfill Tune also is a key to the west site argument It was the threat of an extended court battle over the proposed east site that convinced the council to change its tactics Monday. A refusal by one owner of the east site to ac-cept the city's offer of $ 550 per acre and the urgent need to find a new landfill before the old one reaches capacity were all it took. But before a landfill at the west site becomes reahtv. the city must purchase 1 9 miles of an old hauling road so garbage trucks can get there The road, once used by the Pea bo-dy Coal Co , crosses three farms Sapp said Monday he doesn't think the farmers will cooperate with the city in selling that part of their prop-erty Thus, the condemnation process may have to start all over again, he said, whde the city already is seve-ral months into condemning the east site " The argument that going to the west site is quicker than going to the east site is wrong," Sapp said R C Russell is one of the landown-ers whose farm would be split in half by the city using the haul road Con-tacted last Saturday before the coun-cil's vote on the west site, Russell was upset that city officials had j et to discuss the acquisition of the road with him. " No one has had the decency to talk to me about it," he said " It ag-gravates the devil out ofme " Russell said a road that splits his land would be a great inconvenience in his everyday farming duties Although Russell said he was tak-ing a wait- and- s- ee attitude on wheth-er he would negotiate or fight the city on buying part of his land, he was not enthusiastic about it " They can do anything they like," he said of the city government, " but I don't have to like it " A second farmer, James Heller, also disliked the idea of seeing his land split by a road for the city ' s use. but he said last Saturday that he would be willing to sell that part of his land if a decentoffer was made Heller added that any deal with the city would have to include farm-ers being allowed to continue using the road " We use it all the time dur-ing the farming season," he said Karleen Crenshaw, the third land-owner who would be affected by the city's purchasing of the road, had no comment when reached Tuesday Columbia Public Works Director Ray Beck said negotiations with the landowners could not begin without council approval We're trying to keep the steps in order," he said ' Once we get the site nailed down, then we can start negotiating with the property own- - ers Beck said he understood a road cutting through farm land created problems, " but the appraisers would See RESIDENTS, Page 8A Judges work hard to project image of neutrality 8y Margaret DeRosby Mtosourlan stall writer As far as Presiding Circuit Court Judge Frank Conley is concerned, there are only two people who ever possessed all the desirable qualities that make up an ideal judge. One was in the Old Testament and named Solomon; the other was Jesus Christ himself. . " Ideal to me is a plateau beyond fair and impartial," Conley says. " Fair and impartial is what we're trying to achieve. Hopefully we do that more so than we don't." Conley and his four judicial broth-ers and sisters of the court are the fi-nal word in law enforcement for this hajf of the 13th Circuit of Boone and Callaway counties. They are the judge and more often than not, the Jury. Yet none of the five admits to being entirely flawless. " It's the same question as ' Is there a perfect human being?' " says Associate Circuit Judge Joan PlnneD. " Who of us would ever claim to be perfect?" " All of us stride to be that ideal person." Judge Ellen Roper adds. " But ft would 6e difficult to be ev-erything you consider ideal 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. I'm sure we're all human and that's probably something that people do not recog-nize." Since elected judges in Boone County don't campaign on the basis of their humanity, candidates must emphasize tangible as well as intan-gible aspects in their platforms. When polled for qualities the judges consider most desirable, im-partiality and judicial, integrity ranked at the top of the list " You've got to have someone who is trusted.' 7 Judge Gene Hamilton says. " There's enough of a lack of faith in our system of justice now. And very often, one ( judge) can de-stroy the reputation of a whole group whodo have integrity." . According to the judges, other de-sirables include: Patience. k-- Thoughtfulness and intellectual curiosity. " You don't want to sit there luce a dunderhead," Conley says. " You want to have a will-ingness to occasionally get into books andlook." Total honesty, independence and industry. v A sense of humor. " You can sort out quite a bit, what is actually contempt of court and what is just an unintentional comment," says Pin- nel- l. " Frequently people say, ' Yes, sir' to me but I don't pay any atten-tion to that because they are just taken up with their own problems." Flexibility. " I don't think we have to throw out everything from the . past," Conley says. " But we have to be willing to adapt." f " A good manager of time and resources," Associate Circuit Judge Stan Clay says. " A judge needs to get cases bandied and decided promptly. If not it gives the public a bad image of the judicial process." But wjofle fairness and impartiali-ty rank as the most paramount ob-jectives, the five judges admit these qualities must be tempered by a cer-tain degree of sensitivity. " You have to be sensitive to cer-tain things that occur or you're not a human being," Conley says. " But it's being sensitive without it inter-fering with your ability to do what you have to do." Hamilton believes judges should always have a sense of direction 11 when deciding cases since they often find themselves choosing the best answer from a limited number of al-ternatives. " If a judge can keep that sense of where he's going, I don't think he can be too sensitive," Hamilton says. " It's very important that the judge try to envision himself in the position of other people and not think ' I'm the greatest thing in the world because I'm the judge.' " But even an ideal judge, if he or she existed, soil is a human being and subject to human error, the judges acknowledge. Particularly in the most difficult cases, the right an-swer may not always be the best one. " Certainly I do not feel good about sending someone away for 20 or 30 years who is 17 or 18 years old," Roper says. " But nor do I feel good about what they did to the victim. So it's a double- edge- d sword. It is some-thing you think about but it's not an obsession with me. Yet it is the admittedly fallible judge who wields the power of af-fecting people's lives both on a per-sonal liberty basis as well as from a property standpoint. That sense of power carries with it a charismatic quality which follow-ers of the United States Supreme Court sometimes call the " cult of the robe." Conley downplays that sense of su-periority. " I suppose alot of people ascribe more to us than we have," he says. " But I don't think ( a judge) should take the power or the trappings of the office too seriously. I don't mean that you should be disrespectful. But taking yourself too seriously in the role is a mistake." Roper says she is guided by the Canon of Judicial Ethics in every-thing she does and is on constant vig- den- ce never to abuse her judicial power an act she finds particular-ly disreputable. " I would say that is the greatest fault I have seen in some of my brothers on the bench is that they get a real high from power and being able to tell someone what to do," she says. But Clay believes " Big Brother" is always watching even where judges are concerned " Everybody's got a boss," he says. " Certain judges have some power but there's always some check to it whether in the appellate court or at election tune " Hamilton emphasizes the impor-- i tance of humility in performing one's judicial duties " I think I have a certain job to do and maybe an important job but oth-er people have important jobs, too," Hamilton says. " If you start think-ing you're that important you very quickly lose touch with reality " The reality, Conley says, is that no judge will ever acquire all the qual-ities he thinks an ideal judge ought to have. " The qualities that nec-essarily make up a good judge are probably qualities that make a good person," he adds But that doesn't stop him from wondering aloud about the possible physical characteristics of a " better than good" judge, " He might be a man or a woman and he could be 5 foot, 2 inches, or 6 foot, 4 inches tall," Conley fanta-- . sizes. " He could have black hair, blonde hair . ." " He could be bald,'.' Hamilton adds, picking up the train of thought with a demure reference to himself. " An ideal judge could come in any size or shape," he says. " It's the qualities mat are important After all, justice is more than skin deep." t |