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Orange County District Attorney Frank Phillips II, the second longest-serving D.A. in the state, said yesterday that he will not seek an eighth term in the position he has held since 1986. Phillips, 63, said that while he will retire from public service at the end of the year he will still practice law in some capacity. “It really boils down to doing a job for 28 years. Committing myself to the voters for another four years was something I couldn’t promise the voters,” Phillips said in an interview. “If it was a decision made with my heart rather than my head, I’d run. But I have accomplished all of my goals and then some.”
