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Haute Courtroom Couture

What is this thing with the baseball cap on backwards and pants down around the ass? I didn’t realize that 40-year-old men dressed this way. Or am I way behind the times or fashion trends. I guess, though, that if you’re going to be in court, why not try to make a really great impression on the acting judge by wearing pants falling down around your ass and wearing a hat backwards until the bailiff tells you to take your hat off in the courtroom. And when the judge asked about where you worked, do you think the judge was going to be like pleased with your answer that the Man has been holding you down. Maybe I’m just old and don’t know what is going on in the world; and this is relatively normal behavior now.

And maybe I should be taking some pointers away with me and learn that there is, indeed, a different, less stilted way to address the judge. I don’t know, however, that it will work in every case if you say, “Yo, yo, yo, judge! What about personal bond here, judge?”

And although I went to law school before the turn of the century, I still don’t think it’s a good idea for you to interrupt the judge when it seems like he is ignoring you and he says he’s scheduling a pretrial conference for February 15th. I have seen some lawyers do it and get reprimanded by the judge for interrupting. I have seen some people who were not represented by a lawyer interrupt a judge, but usually the judge is polite in letting them know that they should not interrupt again.

When you think about it now from inside the jail cell you’ll be occupying for a while, do you still think you didn’t do anything wrong when you said, “Yo, yo, yo. I asked you about personal bond. Didn’t you hear me? I need to get out to go to school.”