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Feb. 12, 2009

Double Duty

New judge Michael B. Donner is assigned to civil court, but he mostly handles criminal trials in case-backlogged Riverside County.

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Double Duty

Michael B. Donner

Riverside County Superior Court
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By Jason W. Armstrong
Daily Journal Staff Writer

RIVERSIDE - Michael B. Donner vividly remembers the day when, as a young man working in pipeline construction for the Southern California Gas Co., his boss ordered him to crawl into a hole "filled with nasty liquid" and feel the base of a steel rod boring deep into the ground to make sure it was traveling straight.

"I was standing in this hole with my head just above street level with cars g... (continued)

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