Usually a change-of-plea hearing is a dry affair.
The judge makes sure the defendant is pleading guilty voluntarily, he reels off a bunch of legalistic phraseology, and the deal is signed off. The prosecutor may dismiss a charge or two in exchange for the defendant admitting to another crime and accepting some prison time.
It’s a routine affair in any criminal court.
But that hasn’t been the case several times recently in a certain Nogales courtroom. Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink has decided he wil…
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