Friday, March 29, 2024

Joe Brown Released From Jail After 5-Day Sentence

Judge Joe Brown
Judge Joe Brown

*Former television judge Joe Brown is again a free man.

The Commercial Appeal reports Brown was sprung from the Shelby County Jail Tuesday morning after serving a five-day jail sentence for contempt of court. He turned himself in last Thursday.

Brown, a former Memphis judge, was charged with contempt after an outburst in Juvenile Court in March 2014. Magistrate Judge Harold Horne sentenced Brown to five days in jail following a verbal exchange in which Brown called the Juvenile Court a “sorry operation” and challenged Horne’s authority.

In a ruling issued Aug. 14, the Tennessee Supreme Court refused to allow Brown to appeal a Court of Appeals decision that had upheld the jail sentence.

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