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Jul. 1, 2009

Lie Detector

San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Tony Agbayani has been a defense attorney, prosecutor, commissioner and now a judge. But he still makes time to speak to defendants dude to dude.

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Lie Detector
San Joaquin County Superior Court
By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer

STOCKTON - When all the legalese didn't get a straight story out of a man accused of violating his probation, San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Tony Agbayani borrowed a word from his teenage children - "Dude."

The man had already appeared in Agbayani's court several times and was rattling off unbelievable excuses, including the bus he was riding getting into a crash and his grandmother dying ... (continued)

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