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Life Tenure for Fed Judges Raises Issues of Senility, Dementia
By Joseph Goldstein Special to ProPublica Judge Richard Owen of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan gathered a group of lawyers in his courtroom in 2007 to discuss the possible leak of sealed documents in a business case. As the hearing got under way, Owen, then 84, asked for someone to explain this newfangled mode…