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A Superior Court judge in Rome last week completely lost it on the bench during a hearing in which a murder defendant shouted repeated obscenities at the judge and then threatened to kill members of the judges family.
A transcript of the hearing shows how an attempt by defendant Denver Fenton Allen to get a different public defender devolved into heated and nasty exchanges with Judge Bryant Durham Jr. At one point, Durham told Allen that he looked like a queer and even challenged him to masturbate in front of him in the courtroom.
The judge, while provoked in the extreme, made comments that could land him in trouble with the state judicial ethics agency. He not only exchanged vulgarities with Allen, he also said it was his guess that hed find Allen guilty and that Allen would find out how nasty I really am.
Durham would not comment on the incident because the case against Allen is still pending, his office said. Durham, a former private attorney, was appointed to the bench more than a dozen years ago by then-Gov. Sonny Perdue.
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SheriffBob
(552 posts)the defendant was just joking and being sarcastic.
riversedge
(73,265 posts)have held my temper if a nasty person such as him threatened my family.
kevink077
(471 posts)They are supposed to have the temperament to be above this type of stuff. This judge failed that test and must withdraw from this case (at a minimum)
Xipe Totec
(44,086 posts)gopiscrap
(24,203 posts)GoDawgs
(267 posts)Maybe i'll try that next time....
47of74
(18,470 posts)TexasTowelie
(117,223 posts)The reenactment had me rolling.
47of74
(18,470 posts)...never, never, never, never, never, never say those two special words to a judge for any reason whatsoever.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Denver Fenton Allen is not fit to stand trial according to another judge;
Floyd County Superior Court Judge Billy Sparks signed an order Tuesday stating that a recent report by the Georgia Department of Behavioral Heath and Developmental Disabilities concluded that Allen is not fit for trial at this time, the News-Tribune reported.
Allen is expected to be transferred to a state facility where he can again be evaluated.