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This portrait of Sacramento Superior Court judges Malcolm Glenn, Peter Shields and Raymond Coughlin was taken in 1947. They stand left to right, respectively. Glenn spent 43 years as a civil court judge, appointed to the bench in 1914. Also a civil court judge, Shields holds distinction for being the longest sitting judge in the history of the California Superior Courts – 49 years. The much-beloved Shields, who died at the age of 100 in 1962, was founder of the Davis campus of the University of California and a noted farmer who raised award-wining Jersey cattle. Coughlin was a criminal court judge for 27 years, retiring in 1964. In 1930, Coughlin was the first to argue innocence on reasons of insanity, having asked the Supreme Court to reverse a California Supreme Court decision in order to save the life of a murderer. He lost the appeal, but was later able to save the life of his client as the sentence was commuted. Today, the dual plea is commonly entered, most notably in murder cases.
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