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You seemed to have left this part out:Then there's the time Wolfinger refused to fire an assistant state attorney after he pleaded guilty to drunken driving, outraging MADD.
Driving Drunk Won't Cost Prosecutor Job
Members of Mothers Against Drunk Driving expressed shock that Counts was not fired after pleading guilty Jan. 26 in Orlando to his second DUI charge in eight years.
''I do not condone or excuse his actions for any reason,'' Wolfinger said. ''But he was not treated any differently than anyone else. He did not receive special consideration from the courts and was punished by this office.''
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-03-14/news/0200440222_1_wolfinger-bar-counts
''DUI nowadays is treated as a very serious offense,'' he said. ''So, of course, the Bar treats it seriously.''
Wolfinger asked another prosecutor, Seminole Assistant State Attorney Joe Flood, to resign in January 1985 after he was arrested and charged with DUI and leaving the scene of an accident.
That case was different, Wolfinger said, because Flood had been thrown out of a Sanford bar twice on the night of the arrest, hit two cars in the parking lot and left. Police later stopped and arrested him.