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Sep. 10, 2009

The Gory Details

After a decade of hearing graphic murder trials, overseeing a bleeding court budget is less harrowing for Judge Mary Ann O'Malley.

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By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer

MARTINEZ - Sheianna Babcock lay in a pool of blood, eyes wide open, when police found her on a Richmond sidewalk. They thought she was dead, until an officer noticed her blink.

Having seen pictures of Babcock shot in the head, jurors' jaws dropped when Babcock, who had survived a coma and learned to walk and talk again, came into Judge Mary Ann O'Malley's courtroom in 2007 to testify against the ... (continued)

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