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“The judge is very patient,” said the opposition lawyer, Richard Herman of the American Civil Liberties Union. Besides, he added, “another 30 days doesn’t matter that much.”
Herman was referring to U.S. District Judge William P. Gray’s bestowal of a 30-day extension to his deadline for ending overcrowding in the Orange County Jail. That deadline had been the result of an ACLU lawsuit.
Gray had previously ordered Sheriff Brad Gates to keep the jail population at or below 1,400 beginning April 1, but Gates, through an attorney, said it would be impossible. Gray, who set May 1 as the new deadline, said he would schedule a hearing in April on the 1,400-inmate limit.
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