Agitated US Judge Tears Off Robe, Tackles Man In Courtroom

Though the incident took place in December, video footage of the scuffle was published this week on Mlive.com. It showed a rare instance of a judge physically intervening in a courtroom situation - something that at least one of the Michigan judge's colleagues said was justified in this case.

 

The four-minute, profanity-laced video showed the defendant, Jacob Larson, accusing Jackson County Circuit Court Judge John McBain of being "buddy-buddy" with a woman Larson had been accused of stalking for about a year, Mlive reported.