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Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009

Judge in Berkeley tree-sitter case dies at 58

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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Alameda County judge who presided over the high profile UC Berkeley tree-sitter standoff has died.

Oakland police say Barbara J. Miller was found by a relative Friday in her Glenview home. She was 58.

Police say an autopsy will be conducted but it appeared Miller died of natural causes.

Miller was elected to the Superior Court of Alameda County in 1996 after years of being a lawyer and court commissioner.

She decided her most high profile case last year when she ruled that UC Berkeley could build an athletic stadium on a site populated by an oak tree grove over the objections of some environmentalists who made headlines camping in the trees.