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about this plan was when the lawyers met with the laymen,
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that the lawyers were going to take the ball and carry
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it anyway, and the laymen were not going to do anything
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much about it.
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MR. WINTERS: That has not been true. Of
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course, that is a matter of personality. You could get
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a group of certain lawyers who would dominate.
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MRS. BOTHE: The reasons I have heard have
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been the judge would dominate everybody, laymen and
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lawyers
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MR. MARTINEAU: Have you been familiar with
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any experiences in states that you have judges sitting
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on the nominations commission, that the judges wind up
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dominating the commissions and actually both make the
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lawyers and the laymen fearful to oppose their recom-
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mendations and wind up being, in effect, rubber stamps
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for the judge and the commission?
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MR. WINTERS: That could only happen in a
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case of an individual judge who had a very strong
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dominant personality. Now, you asked me if I am
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familiar. 1 answer, there is one instance that I knew
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