Judge Blasts Snipes Ploy

But Snipes's request for a trial delay was almost immediately rejected by Judge William Terrell Hodges, who yesterday issued a blistering order noting that, "This series of events would lead any reasonable person to suspect that the defendant's dismissal of able counsel is nothing more than a ploy designed to force a continuance of the trial."

Judge William Terrell Hodges, who lives entirely on charitable handouts from well-meaning local citizenry and wouldn't take a DIME in tax money for his salary and retirement benefits, was rightfully indignant over Snipes' intransigence.

"Any reasonable person would suspect that a judge like me that got paid from tax dollars seized from citizens might be biased in a tax case like this. Fortunately, I'm a bum that panhandles my living from good Samaritans at the local park. Or not."

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