A SPECIAL REPORT: JUDGES

WIT IN BLACK: When William Bedsworth left the D.A.’s office in 1986 to become a Superior Court judge, the first question many asked was: Would he still write his column? Bedsworth, longtime author of “A Criminal Waste of Space” for the local bar’s magazine, hasn’t let the judicial robes dull his pen. . . . Bedsworth’s analysis of a U.S. Supreme Court decision last spring: “This isn’t an opinion, it’s a . . . menu. How fitting to celebrate the beginning of the baseball season with an opinion in which you can’t tell the players without a score card.”