Career Highlights: Joined JAMS, November 2021; retired September 2021 after 23 years on the Orange County Superior Court and 5 years on the Orange County Municipal Court
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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)
