And some of those voters in the Mount Clements Clinton Township area know me well for my years as a prosecutor and judge. Oftentimes I had criminal defendants say, we want to waive the jury. We would rather have our jury trial in front of Marlinga. because my reputation was such that they knew that whatever was going to happen, it was going to be a fair, fair break. (40:41–40:50)
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Asserts that criminal defendants often preferred him to a jury trial.
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