3 Indiana Judges Suspended After White Castle Brawl That Left 2 Of Them Wounded

[mfcorey1]

Back in May, three Indiana judges got into a fight. It was the crescendo of an incident brimming with colorful details: a gaggle of judges drinking the night before a judicial conference, a failed attempt to visit a strip club called the Red Garter, a brawl in the parking lot of an Indianapolis White Castle.

The altercation apparently started sometime after 3 a.m., when one of the judges, Sabrina Bell, raised a middle finger at two men yelling from a passing SUV, and ended after one of those men shot two of the judges.

In between, the three judges took a number of actions that "discredited the entire Indiana judiciary," according to an opinion posted by the Indiana Supreme Court this week, suspending the judges.

The court found that the three — Andrew Adams, Bradley Jacobs and Sabrina Bell — had "engaged in judicial misconduct by appearing in public in an intoxicated state and behaving in an injudicious manner and by becoming involved in a verbal altercation." Adams and Jacobs engaged in further judicial misconduct "by becoming involved in a physical altercation for which Judge Adams was criminally charged and convicted."

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/14/779339897/3-indiana-judges-suspended-after-white-castle-brawl-that-left-2-of-them-wounded

[dhol82]

1. "Sober as a Judge"

Not so much.

[Hortensis]

2. Good. (Good grief.)

[Princess Turandot]

3. Judge Sabrina Bell said to the cops: "I drink and get mouthy, and I'm fiery and I'm feisty."

According to Reuters, that was her explanation for flipping the bird at the two guys passing by in the car.

Judge Bell responded by extending her middle finger. The car pulled over, and two of the occupants, Alfredo Vazquez and Brandon Kaiser, had a verbal altercation with the judges.

“I drink and get mouthy, and I’m fiery and I’m feisty,” Judge Bell later told police in a recorded statement, according to the court document.

The shouting match soon turned physical, the document said. Judge Jacobs held Kaiser on the ground, and Judge Adams kicked him in the back. Kaiser then pulled out a gun and shot Adams once in the abdomen and Jacobs twice in the chest.

Both were transported to local hospitals. Adams had two emergency surgeries, including a colon resectioning, and Jacobs had two emergency surgeries and was hospitalized for 14 days.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indiana-judges/indiana-judges-suspended-after-brawl-outside-white-castle-idUSKBN1XP2C7

[braddy]

4. "I'm fiery and I'm feisty," She must get into a lot of bar fights, I wonder why she didn't kick

those guys asses.

[cwydro]

5. Classy.

Not.