Circus Retrospective

February 24th, 2007 by Red Renee

A protein bar, orange juice, white tennis shorts, more juice, and Texas. All things you would expect to come up in a courtroom, right? Maybe, except none of it had anything to do with an actual case being decided. If you were living in a hole this week with Punxatawny Phil, you missed what may have been the most uncomfortable and most bizarre legal spectacle in the history of the 24 hours news cycle. Judge Larry Seidlin presiding over what was already a circus, turned the court room into the alternate script for “My Cousin Vinny”, this time with Joe Pesci playing the judge. Judge Seidlin was at times rambling, incoherent, emotional, unpredictable, and just plain strange. Next stop: daytime courtroom alongside Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown no doubt. You have to watch it to believe it. Grab some coffee or a sandwich and enjoy.

First, recapped as only Keith Olbermann and Countdown can do:

Second, an uncut video with him reading his “verdict” and getting very emotional. As if the Anna Nicole parade of emotional wrecks needed one more floatâ€¦