A Sheriff Arrested Me in a Diner Without Knowing Who I Was, Then His Deputy Opened My Wallet and Found My Federal Judge Badge

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“Yes, sir,” I said. “I could have.”

“Then why didn’t you?”

I studied the jury.

“Because the Constitution doesn’t only protect federal judges, Mr. Fontaine. It protects waitresses, deacons, seventy-one-year-old men with canes, and eighty-one-year-old widows who need their heart pills. If the only thing standing between your client and a person’s rights was the badge in her purse, then nobody in Pell County was safe. I wanted to know whether they were. They weren’t.” Federaljudge apparel

Fontaine sat down.

Caleb Miller testified on the fifth day.

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