More Judges Gone Wild: Spring Break!
From The Washington Post:
“‘These are not my pants,’ Pearson recalled telling Chung when she handed him a pair of gray pants with cuffs. ‘I have in my adult life, with one exception, never worn pants with cuffs.’
‘And she said, ‘These are your pants.”
Pearson paused. He struggled to breathe deeply. He could not continue. Pearson blurted a request for a break, stood up, turned around and walked out of the courtroom, tears dripping from his full and reddened eyes.
When he returned, he called that moment when Chung offered him the wrong pants ‘a Twilight Zone experience,’ and again, he welled up and had to halt the proceedings. Pearson wanted to submit the remainder of his testimony in writing, but Judge Bartnoff wouldn’t hear of it.”
You know who else is crying, Judge Barnoff, you insensitive clod? Baby Jesus, that’s who.
June 13th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
In a sense it is laughable except when you remember that all this court time is paid for by us Other civil litigants who need their day in court are held up from vedict or decision for years - I feel sorry that we allow our mentally ill to perform for our amusement on the guise of equal justice for all -
June 13th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Honestly if I were on a jury for something like this, I would have to find the defendants innocent regardless of whether I thought they were guilty or not just to keep the asshat who filed it from winning. It seems no matter what, justice couldn’t possibly be done in the case.
June 13th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
I’ll be surprised if the jury awards the judge anything over a grand, which is funny because they Chungs tried 3 seperate settlements and i think the last was around 12 grand or some such to shut him up.
Juries get to decide actual amounts given. I would let him win the trial, and set payment at 50 cents… just to make a point.
While the Chungs are considering moving back to South Korea, Judge Pearson has probably ruined his own life as no one with more than 2 brain cells will ever trust him or take him seriously again. In fact, I wonder if he even can get any dry cleaning done now. Who would want to iron his pants now? I sure as hell wouldnt.
June 14th, 2007 at 1:00 am
Uhhh…. okay.
June 14th, 2007 at 11:42 am
I’ve always wondered what drama queens did for a living. Now it all makes sense.
June 25th, 2007 at 10:26 am
In case you hadn’t seen it, Pearson lost the case against the dry cleaners and was ordered to pay court costs. My favorite title from the Google news search: “Judge’s pants not worth $54 million.”