Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State
Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State
Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State
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Hughes: Were you seeing the first real emergence <strong>of</strong> drugs as a societal problem as well?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I wasn’t seeing too much <strong>of</strong> that over where I was on the Northeast Court.<br />
Hughes: So what cases during your decade as a District Court judge, really stick out?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Some <strong>of</strong> the small claims were funny because they would come to court without<br />
lawyers. I remember one case where a woman went into a shop that sold aquarium<br />
equipment, and it had posted one <strong>of</strong> these big signs, “Lovely to look at. Delightful to hold.<br />
If you break it, we mark it sold.” Anyway, she’s whipping around with her kid and she<br />
knocks <strong>of</strong>f a small dragon that’s supposed to go in an aquarium. So she runs for the door,<br />
and the guy yells, “You broke this!” So she grabs her kid, rushes out and locks the car door.<br />
He gets out and picks up a stick. She said, “Well it just slipped. It just slipped!” So he picks<br />
up a stick and says, “So did this just slip.” And bangs her car. So they’re in my court. She’s<br />
suing for the damage to her car; he’s suing for the damage to his dragon.<br />
Hughes: This is Judge Judy stuff. What did you do?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Oh, I don’t know. I can’t remember what I did.<br />
Hughes: On the bench did you ever have to really suppress the desire to cackle or<br />
otherwise laugh out loud?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Oh yeah, “Why am I here? It’s just too much.”<br />
Hughes: Were there any emerging trends in traffic violations that you saw then?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Well, they reduced the Breathalyzer reading for intoxication. It used to be 1.5<br />
and now it’s .08; in increments they reduced it.<br />
Hughes: 1.5. What do you think about that?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Well, what do you want me to think about it?<br />
Hughes: I don’t know. You were on the bench! (laughing)<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: I mean some people can drive at 1.5 and some people can’t drive at .08.<br />
Hughes: I did a story one time where I went to the <strong>State</strong> Patrol Academy and got drunker<br />
than a skunk.<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Then take the Breathalyzer?<br />
Hughes: Then they put you in a simulator and let you drive where you can’t hurt yourself.<br />
Did you ever do that?<br />
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