Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State

Hughes: I think that there was upwards combined of a million dollars spent in those races.
Dimmick: Terrible, absolutely terrible.
Hughes: Any remedies for that judge?
Dimmick: That’s what they were talking about, let’s get them appointed and then you run
against yourself. And it’s state money, and you don’t have to owe anybody anything.
Hughes: I’m sorry but I don’t fully understand what you mean when you say, “run against
yourself.”
Dimmick: You run against your record. In other words, you’re up for election, and anybody
who wants to can bring up all the bad stuff you’ve done, crummy opinions you’ve written,
or you ran away with the neighbor. Whatever they want to bring up. But you don’t have
somebody personally taking you on, person to person. You run against your record. And if
you lose, then there’s a new appointment.
Hughes: Tell us about some of the key cases you heard and what your philosophy was on
the Supreme Court. And how you developed this reputation, deserved or undeserved, for
being a tough, law-and-order, hang ’em high kind of judge?
Dimmick: I don’t know. Do you have a case in mind?
Hughes: Well, there was the decision affirming the death sentence for Charles Rodman
Campbell. If you wanted a poster child for a vicious,
unrepentant killer, it was him. Campbell was out on work
release when he murdered a woman who had fingered
him, her young daughter and a friend. Earlier, he had gone
to prison for raping the woman.
Dimmick: Campbell was evil, through and through, and
through and through. And my buddy Tony Savage was
appointed to represent him. We used to call Tony the big
Boy Scout, because he always found good in everybody. But
he said, “He’s the only guy I could not look in the eye and
Accused triple murderer Charles Rodman
Campbell at his trial in 1985.
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feel that there was anything behind his eyes.”
Hughes: Scary stuff, isn’t it?
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