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How did Stephen Johnson Field become Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court?
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Field replaced the former chief justice of the California Supreme Court, David S. Terry, because Terry killed a United States Senator from California (David Colbreth Broderick) in a duel and left the state. Field and Terry's paths crossed again 30 years later when Field, acting in his capacity as a circuit judge of the 9th Federal Circuit Court, ruled against Terry in a convoluted divorce case (and had him sent to jail for contempt of court as well). Seeking revenge, Terry attempted to kill