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No supreme court justice, judge of any intermediate appellate court, district court judge, probate judge, or juvenile judge shall engage in the practice of law.
The county court judges perform the arraignment and if the defendant is stubborn about pleading, practices law as the defendant's attorney and pleads for him. [In my persecution, that is a large component about where they screwed up by trying to prosecute me 4.5 years later. There was the district court judge (felonies are all heard in district) trying to practice law.] Too late to fall back on the county court judge's faulty arraignment.