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Oct. 13, 2008

Career Bounce

Job prospects dimmed for former Orange County prosecutor Vickie L. Hix after she campagined against her boss in a district attorney's race. But now she is a court commissioner and her future looks bright.

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By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - Vickie Hix's favorite courtroom war story is about the time a gang member was on the stand explaining why he had killed a young man outside a wedding. The defendant claimed he acted in self-defense against the allegedly violent victim.

The prosecution's version was that gang members had asked the intoxicated victim where he was from. "He didn't have the right answer, and he got ... (continued)

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