Former TV judge Joe Brown is now in custody in Tennessee. He has begun serving his five-day jail sentence for contempt of court, TMZ reports.
On March 24, 2014, Brown was briefly jailed for an outburst in a Shelby County Juvenile Court officials said he caused an outburst in the courtroom while there representing a client. Magistrate Judge Harold Horne initially sentenced Brown to one day in jail, but upped the sentence to five days after a verbal exchange with Brown, who was representing a client.
During the spirited debate with Judge Home, Brown asked, “Excuse me, on what authority do you sit, by the way?… This tribunal on a General Sessions Court’s authority is insufficient to establish you. Therefore, I challenge your authority to hear it. … This is a circus, sir.”
The video was edited to remove the name of Brown’s client and released to media. Brown contended it was manipulated.
