this guy?
Judge Joe Brown? another FELON like Trump?
Personal life
Brown is twice divorced and has two sons from his first marriage.
[16]
Legal issues
In March 2014, Brown was arrested in
Memphis, Tennessee, and charged with five counts of contempt of court and getting "verbally abusive" during a child support case overseen by Magistrate Harold Horne. Brown, who retains his law license, was reviewing a child support matter as a favor to an acquaintance.
According to press accounts, Brown became combative and irate after Horne refused to discuss details of the case that were not on the schedule. Brown was sentenced to five days in jail,
[9][17] but was later released on his own recognizance.
[18] Brown surrendered to the Shelby County Sheriff on August 27, 2015, to serve his five-day sentence at the Shelby County Corrections Facility in Memphis.
[19] In audio obtained by WREG
[20] and an available transcript on eonline.com,
[21] Brown can be heard arguing that the judge didn't have the authority to sit on the bench.
Brown was warned that he would be held in contempt before these comments. Judge Horne began increasing the quantity of days Brown could be held in contempt after Brown continued disrupting the court. Judge Brown's lawyer filed an appeal, but the appeal was refused. Judge Horne did have the authority to hold him in contempt.
[24] He was released from protective custody at the Shelby County Corrections Facility the morning of September 1, 2015.
[25] After his release, he compared himself to notable civil rights activists who spent significant time imprisoned for their activism like
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Nelson Mandela, and
Stokely Carmichael. Some in the community took offense to this assertion since the incident took place during Brown's Shelby County district attorney campaign and Brown brought his own lawyer with him during the 2014 incident, causing many to wonder if it was a ploy for publicity.
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