The Scoop - December 21, 2015
Posted by Anne Decker
on Dec 21, 2015
Being a magistrate in Lima Municipal Court is certainly interesting.
Dick Warren had a lot of fun stories to tell about his work as a magistrate in Lima Municipal Court...like the time he was hearing a landlord/tenant dispute in which the defendant explained that she'd settled her rent bill with personal favors...while her husband stood there in shock. Or the time he was mooned when a woman bent down to pick up some papers she'd dropped. And once a transvestite called him 'that bi*** in the robe'. Warren says that things move quickly at Municipal Court. With 28,000 cases decided each year, most are in and out in 5 minutes, compared to the two or three months that cases last in Common Pleas Court. Warren's usual cases are things like traffic violations, drug arrests, landlord/tenant disputes, and small claims, which he says is like the Judge Judy of Municipal Court.
For Fellowship, Jay Begg had each table rate the presidential candidates based on the 4 Way Test. They didn't score very high, but Ben Carson came out on top.