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Judicial diversity aids legitimacy

Daily Report

March 4, 2013

DeKalb County State Court Judge Dax Lopez said that, even as a Latino who spent most of his life in Georgia, he was surprised to learn just how dismissive some of his fellow jurists could be toward minorities and immigrants. Judge Anne Barnes (left) of the state Court of Appeals and Justice Harold Melton of the Georgia Supreme Court weighed in on how judicial diversity affects the public's perception of justice.

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