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Justice, Texas Style

Defense attorney James Lee Bright appeared in Dallas (Texas) County Court to have a charge against his client dismissed. But the presiding judge, Etta Mullin, refused to allow Bright to enter her courtroom because Bright was wearing shorts. “She refused to allow us to have our client even brought out,” Bright complained. He has filed a motion to have Judge Mullin thrown off the case because he believes he has a legitimate reason to not wear long pants: his recent knee surgery. “I have tubes that come out of my leg that make it prohibitive to wear them,” he said. “This connects to my ice machine; that is a way of taking down the swelling in my leg. I’m also incapable of putting on long pants by myself.” Bright explains that his client is stuck in jail because of the issue. “She is denying him fair hearings under the Sixth Amendment by holding my physical condition against me so that I’m unable to practice in her court correctly.” (MS/KDFW Dallas) ...So that’s why they call them law suits.