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Marquis also served on Oregon's Criminal Justice Commission from 2005 to 2009, serves as vice chair of the Animal Legal Defense Fund. and was elected in August 2009 to the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Leadership Council for a three year term.
Marquis is an outspoken prosecutor who is frequently asked to "special prosecute" conflict of interest cases for other District Attorneys. He has successfully prosecuted a Benton County lawyer, a former courtroom rival, and the 1985 case in which Marquis defeated famed defense attorney Gerry Spence, which became the subject of Spence's 2003 book, The Smoking Gun.
In addition to having worked for more than six years, and recently started on 1st and 3rd Monday's as a jazz disc jockey at KMUN-FM, since 1994 Marquis has also played the cameo role of the Sheriff in the community play Shanghaied In Astoria.
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