An attorney who has applied for the Jefferson County Superior Court judge bench was arrested for driving while intoxicated last year.
But Craddock Davis Verser, a Port Townsend attorney, believes the charge actually makes him a better candidate for the job by putting things into perspective.
“I defend a lot of people charged with DUIs,” he said Thursday. “But this was very much a learning process for me.”
Verser and four other Jefferson County lawyers applied for the job, which opened after Thomas J. Majhan died last month while undergoing cancer treatment.
The other four applicants for the position are Karen Gates Hildt, William Charles Henry and Michael Edward Hass, all of Port Townsend and Rebekah Ruth Ross of Brinnon.
The appointee will serve until voters elect a new judge in November.
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The rest of the story appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition.