This solo practitioner in Texas might want to meet up with Mayor Alan Autry for a beer sometime:
An Austin, Texas, criminal defense attorney challenging his conviction for contempt of court for making an obscene gesture during an appearance before a judge faces a new hurdle: The State Bar of Texas has filed a grievance against him.
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“This is fascism,” Reposa says of the Bar’s grievance.
Maybe, but when you’re dealing with the court, and with the state bar, they sort of have, you know, your livelihood in their hands. So you don’t do things like this:
The Bar . . . alleges that when [Judge Jan] Breland asked the prosecutor to recite the terms of the plea offer, Reposa began whispering in [his client] Williams’ ear and made a masturbatory gesture when the prosecutor said something about the continued whisperings.
But, like I said above, he might have good company with Mayor “Bubba,” who made a fool of himself and Fresno when he said, in federal court, to a federal judge: “I didn’t think I was in the Soviet Union.”