In 1977, a limousine pulled up to a small church in Ohio. Outstepped Dean Martin. [snorts] He walked into the funeral of a man nobody had ever heard of. He sat in the front row. He didn’t speak to anyone. Then he left. For 30 years, nobody knew why. The truth only came out after…
He barely touched him. I swear to God, he barely touched him. And Blassie went backward like he’d been hit by a sledgehammer. I was sitting maybe 15 ft away. I saw the whole thing. That little guy grabbed Blassie’s wrist and Blassie couldn’t move. 235 lbs and he could not move his own arm….
Sandra Mills thought she was making a smart business decision. She was 31 years old, a pop singer with three hit records, regular rotation on AM radio, a growing fan base in the South, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, the Carolas. White audiences who bought her records came to her concerts requested her songs. She’d been booked…
Nobody expects to end up on their back when they’re 280 lb and grabbing someone from behind, but expectations and reality are different things. Frank Morrison learned that difference in 6 seconds on live television while Clint Eastwood watched Burbank, California, NBC Studios, Studio 4, November 12th, 1971, Friday evening, 6:30. The Dean Martin Show…
A 5-year-old girl in a pale pink winter coat walked into an older animal shelter in western Pennsylvania and signed hello to every dog she passed. Not one of them responded. Then she stopped at Kennel 14 and for the first time that morning, one dog looked at her hands instead of all the noise…
At a martial arts gym in Texas, a cocky black belt asked Chuck Norris to spar just for fun. But two minutes later, both his confidence and smile turned into deep regret. “You call that a real fight?” Brad Morrison’s voice echoed through Dragon’s Den Martial Arts Academy as he slammed his training partner to…
I need to tell you something before I tell you this story. I am not a person who cries easily. I never have been. My father raised me to believe that composure was a form of respect, that when someone brings you their worst day, the least you can do is hold yourself together long…
An 86-y old woman walked into my courtroom owing 14 $200 in parking tickets. She was blind, completely blind, and according to the city prosecutor, she’d been racking up violations for three straight years. The moment I saw her case file, I knew something wasn’t adding up. My name is Judge Judith Schind, and I’ve…
I have been on this bench for 40 years. In that time, I have learned to read a room the moment I walk into it. The temperature of it, the weight of it, who is carrying something, and who is performing, and who walked in with nothing left to lose. The morning of September 19th,…
40 years on this bench, I have seen things in this room that would keep most people awake at night. I have watched defendants collapse into tears the moment they realized the evidence was not going their way. I have watched witnesses crack under a single question they did not see coming. I have watched…
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