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Join the judge for "a cold one"
           SEATTLE (Reuters) - A municipal judge resigned after state
           authorities charged he drank beer while a jury was deliberating a
           drunken-driving case and then asked jurors to stay and join him 
or
           a "cold one."
           In his resignation letter, Lakewood Municipal Judge Ralph Baldwin
           apologized for his conduct, which he said stemmed from a
           "misguided sense of congeniality and extremely poor judgment."
           Baldwin had been appointed late last year as the only judge in the
           newly incorporated suburb of 63,000 residents south of Tacoma.
           According to a complaint filed by the state Commission on Judicial
           Conduct, Baldwin was presiding over the second day of a two-day
           trial in February when he left court during deliberations and
           returned with a 12-pack of beer.
           Baldwin allegedly then offered beers to attorneys for both sides 
and
           the court administrator, calling her a "wimp" when she refused.
           The lawyers and the judge, however, each had at least one beer
           while waiting in court.
           After the jury returned a verdict of guilty in the drunken-driving
           case, Baldwin invited the jurors to join him in the jury room to 
drink
           beer and discuss the case, according to the complaint.
           "Stay for a cold one," Baldwin allegedly said, adding: "I'm not
           responsible for any drinking and driving."
           The complaint charges that three jurors and the prosecutor in the
           case took up Baldwin on his offer.
           Afterward, Baldwin allegedly drove off with an open can of beer,
           saying, "I might as well drink and drive, I do it all the time 
anyway."
           The prosecutor, assistant city attorney Mike McKenzie, disclosed 
the
           incident to his supervisors the following day.
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