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Putting a face on an underfunded justice system is possibly the toughest challenge greeting the newly elected chief justice as Tom Balmer takes of?ce this month, succeeding retiring Chief Justice Paul De Muniz. Balmer will be presiding over a system weathering a decade-old ?nancial crisis that has introduced staff cuts and furlough days, reduced courthouse hours, an omnivorous criminal docket, a neglected civil docket, and serious delays in Oregon's court system, as Karen McGlone reports. |