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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Her old paper, the loyal Seattle P-I, announces <strong>Dimmick</strong>’s elevation to<br />
the King County Superior Court bench in 1976.<br />
Hughes: Was that really helpful?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Oh sure, it refreshes the things you<br />
knew and lost, or that you hadn’t practiced. I<br />
mean, I’d been doing traffic and small claims, very<br />
minimal civil cases.<br />
Hughes: What are some <strong>of</strong> the first big cases<br />
where you thought, “This is really interesting”?<br />
<strong>Dimmick</strong>: Well, we were heavy on the criminal<br />
cases. I had some inkling <strong>of</strong> that because I had<br />
the small criminals where I was, so you get<br />
through that. Picking a jury was what I had to<br />
learn how to do because we didn’t have jury<br />
trials in District Court. So you had to get comfortable with that, all the people in there,<br />
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