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In 1991, Jackson presided over a case that briefly gained national notoriety, when a suspect who had been falsely reported dead was discovered to have been alive—but only after he had actually been killed. It was later found that
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to at-risk youth. He spoke out during his judicial career about the importance of mentoring as a way of both "serving" and "saving" the minority youth he otherwise finds himself sending to prison. He served for a time on the Board of
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in 2002. In it, he argues that many figures in the Old
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237:"Today's Pride of Bed-Study: Hon. Randolph Jackson"
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