“I feel like we’re at Las Vegas...
“I feel like we’re at Las Vegas rolling the dice. . . . And I lose in Las Vegas. . . . The minute one (more) is gone, we have lost 2 1/2 years.”
--Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Pounders, who was forced Monday to use the last alternate juror to replace a seriously ill juror in the marathon McMartin Pre-School molestation trial.
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