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Have a good day, Judge
Municipal courts are often filled with sad stories about human conflict both huge and trivial, but most days the court docket will also bring at least one or two chuckles.
Wednesday morning, June 17, while waiting for specific cases in Middletown Municipal Court, I had to fight back a rolling laugh when a man tried to explain his disorderly conduct charge.
According police, they received a call Tuesday about an intoxicated man. They found their suspect in the middle of the street on all fours with two 40-ounce beer bottles in front of him.
When Middletown Municipal Court Judge Mark W. Wall asked the man, calling him by his first name because he is likely a “frequent flyer” in court, if he had anything to say, the man piped up to defend himself.
“The grass was wet your honor. I fell, but it wasn’t because I was drunk,” the man said.
A defense attorney sitting beside me whispered, “these statements are rarely helpful.”
Wall gave the man a $100 fine and sentenced him to one day in jail, which he had already served.
As the man left the courtroom to go back to the hold cell, he shook his hand and said, “Have a good day, Judge
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