Judge Joe Brown, 'the loosest courtroom on television'

Joe-Brown.jpg At MinnPost.com, columnist Max Sparber pens a tribute to a "shameful" TV pleasure: judge shows. Not just any judge shows, mind you, but those dealing with small claims, "the theater of the quotidian," as he calls it. His favorite of the bunch happens to be a former Criminal Court jurist from Memphis.

My favorite judge is Joe Brown, a sleepy-eyed fellow with a huge mustache and a startling past: He presided over James Earl Ray's last appeal for the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. It's hard to imagine what the Joe Brown of that case was like, as, just now, he runs the loosest courtroom on television. Joe Brown's show isn't so much a trial as it is a free-for-all, with litigants running their mouths about any old thing, shouting each other down, and sometimes getting into loud arguments with the judge. Judge Judy will chastise people who show up in her courtroom underdressed, but the standard uniform for Joe Brown's show seems to be a fashion I like to call "Whatever was lying on the bedroom floor when I woke up." Joe Brown doesn't care -- he sometimes seems so unconcerned that you wonder if he might have dozed off in court, and the few times he gets irritated with the behavior of litigants, it is possible to wonder if his annoyance doesn't stem from having been woken up by their screeching.

Doze off in court? Judge Joe?

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Judge Joe Brown is not FROM Memphis. Memphis was lucky enough to have him here for a number of years. He was/is THE BEST. He is a true intellect PLUS loaded with common sense. Not sure that we will ever be lucky enough to have another person like him living/working here. My opinion........Judge Judy is okay.........Judge Joe Brown far exceeds just being okay.

Opinions are a dime a dozen, evaluate what you see and hear as it happens and do not rely on hear say. I will say all these judge shows are similar to Jerry Springer shows, a lot of stupid and ignorant people. I will say a small percentage of the shows have quality people with real practical issues requiring legal settlement. I say many are a free for all, they are people who probably don't work and receive a monthly welfare check, immature with to much idle time and no ambition. When I see these people I realize why this country is so screwed up and Obama is counting on these irresponsible people to reelect him. God Help America.

Joe Brown gets really fed up with wimpy men and dingy women. I would say some of the men need to man up but my god I can't believe the high percentage of silly dingy women, where the hell are they all coming from, no common sense.

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