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Dec. 15, 2023

Let Them Talk

Neutral Charles Margines wants disputing litigants to know he's heard them.

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Thomas Kurtz /Special to the Daily Journal

Before his 1993 appointment to the bench, retired judge Charles Margines spent 18 years as a criminal defense attorney, including six years as a deputy public defender in Orange County.

"Let's face it, the majority of people who are charged with crimes in the United States are guilty of something -- maybe not the crime they're charged with, but with something," said Margines, who went to work as a public defender shortly afte... (continued)

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