[B4Ranch]

The reason I asked was I was at a trial where the defendant did sit behind the bar. He asked the Judge if he would retain all of his Constitutional Rights if he was inside the bar. The judge replied I am not a Constitutional Judge and I refuse to discuss that in my courtroom. So he sat outside the bar.

[B4Ranch]

Continuation: In this case there was no Jury.

[Zon]

I assume your post #16 was intended for me and not yourself?

I once was a defendant in a traffic-court trial. While the ticketing police officer was on the stand the judge had me sit behind the bar. I had no lawyer and provided my own defense.

Interesting side note: I succeeded in the trial. A week later I asked a hot-shot lawyer (or so he thought) what the odds are of a person getting off under "such and such" a circumstance. I didn't tell him it was my situation. His response, "never". It was then that I told him about my case and how I won.