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On the recordJune 7, 2011
I believe that before serving on the bench, you were a defense attorney and a prosecutor for various periods of time. Is that true?
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Blumenthal questions Judge Scola's legal background before his judicial career.

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