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James Whittier Parker: “I do not believe that empathy has any role, and it has not for the last 5 years that I have been on the State court, in…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 2013
I do not believe that empathy has any role, and it has not for the last 5 years that I have been on the State court, in making any decisions.

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Parker states that empathy does not influence his judicial decisions.

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