A Chandler, AZ attorney was relieved of his duties as a judge pro tem last week after he announced in writing that he would recuse himself from all cases involving drug related crimes.

Marc Victor, a member of NORML who serves on that organization's legal committee, had only managed to serve about one hour of his first shift when Judge Thomas O'Toole, head of the Maricopa County's criminal law judges, gave him the boot. According to an article in the Arizona Tribune, Judge O'Toole called Victor's conduct "grossly inappropriate" and "bizarre."

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