Was this a court room in my country, or the rag bag behind the Goodwill Store in Port au Prince, Haiti? The fashion police ought to give every man-jack of them 30 days on General Principles.
I watched as an US Attorney screamed “...I’ll punch out your lights!” at the attorney who had qualified me as an expert witness on Everglades ecology.The attorney, Mick Barnes just stood there and smiled. Then it happened - in the dim, reptilian hind brain of the Assistant US Attorney a quiet voice must have said, “We are about to punch a retired Army Ranger - how angry are we, really?”
As the say in the South, “Light dawns, said the ‘Possum”.
He turned and stormed out of the room.
I asked Mick what he would have done if he had been punched and his answer was most instructive, “I’d let him punch me a second time.” “Why?”, I asked.
“Because then I can move for his disbarment.”
“Those who love law or sausage should never watch either being made.”, slightly modified from Otto Von Bismark’s famous observation.
For those who love WWF, there are always FloriDUH courts. There is a reason lawyers have been the butt of harsh jokes since long before Rome.