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...lived. Judge Terry went back to the bench and became Chief Justice, but not for long. U. S. Senator David Colbreth Broderick was head of the Democratic Party's Abolitionist wing in the State, and Chief Justice Terry was for the South and slavery. The Senator called the Chief Justice a crook and miserable wretch, so Terry stepped down from the bench to fight a duel. Jittery Broderick put his bullet in the ground; Terry put his through Broderick's breast. A jury acquitted him of murder, but he was still struggling to rebuild his Stockton law practice...