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  • Weird cases: And this week's award for most unjudicial petulance goes to . . .

    06/20/2009 7:20:20 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 4 replies · 1,113+ views
    timesonline ^ | Jun 19, 2009 | Gary Slapper
    In Tennessee, a judge is legally required to be “patient, dignified and courteous” with people in court. He is also required, not unreasonably, “to respect and comply with the law”. But not all judges do. The Supreme Court of Tennessee recently disciplined Judge Durwood Moore for unlawful judicial conduct. Presiding in court one day, the judge happened to glance at Benjamin Marchant, a friend of someone who had court business. Marchant was not a witness, just a spectator. Yet after observing him, the judge ordered court officers to seize the man, get a urine sample from him and have it...