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Lasnik: Another great Carolyn Dimmick story, and this goes back to what used to be the
old boys’ network. When Becky Rowe left the prosecutor’s office and went into private
practice she handled her first case in federal court. And there was a status conference
on it and the men on the other side really felt that they had this novice civil lawyer. Yeah
she’d been in the prosecutor’s office but she wasn’t part of the federal bar. She had never
been to federal court before. And so when they went in they were definitely trying to take
advantage of her and of course it happened to be Judge Dimmick, who had seen Becky
try scores of cases in the Superior Court, and they were good friends. And right away
Carolyn said, “Oh Becky, you remember that Sonny McIntire case?” And they’re having this
personal conversation about this really gross sex crime case, and the other guys are kind of
like, “Uh-oh, this is not going the way we thought it was going to go at all.”
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