Criminal Court Judge. I don't recall that your name's ever been submitted, sir. This tribunal on a General Sessions Court's authority is insufficient to establish you. Therefore, I challenge your authority to hear it. And by the way, what is that, Magistrate, sir, with due respect." Brown then said, "OK, OK, I'll tell you what. I'll be out of here very shortly on a Petition for Habeas Corpus and I'll bring up all these problems and guess what, you might not be operating tomorrow." Brown was warned that he would be held in contempt before these comments. Judge Horne began increasing the quantity of days Brown could be held in contempt after Brown continued disrupting the court. Judge Brown's lawyer filed an appeal, but the appeal was refused. Judge Horne did have the authority to hold him in contempt. He was released from protective custody at the Shelby County Corrections Facility the morning of September 1, 2015. After his release, he compared himself to notable civil rights activists who spent significant time imprisoned for their activism like Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Stokely Carmichael. Some in the community took offense to this assertion since the incident took place during Brown's Shelby County district attorney campaign and Brown brought his own lawyer with him during the 2014 incident, causing many to wonder if it was a ploy for publicity. References External links Judge Joe Brown's BBQ Sauce 1947 births African-American judges African-American television personalities American people of Choctaw descent American prosecutors Living people Lawyers from Los Angeles People from Memphis, Tennessee Lawyers from Washington, D.C. Television judges Tennessee state court judges UCLA School of Law alumni Judges convicted of crimes Susan Miller Dorsey High School alumni Tennessee Democrats 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American people Black conservatism in the United States