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“The system is good. but changing pieces of it - not throwing out the baby with the bathwater - is the way to go," said Toal, who was the state's first woman to serve as chief justice and was on the state Supreme Court for 27 years.
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“I’m very, very reluctant to turn this hearing about juror contact into a wholesale exploration about every piece of conduct by the clerk," Toal said.
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