There is a Time and a Place for Inappropriate Humor
I like it when judges have a sense of humor, but inserting jokes into a judicial opinion is bad form. A recent example of such "cleverness," reported here and here, comes from Judge Roberto Gigante, in the case of Dr. Gil Lederman, the physician who allegedly asked former Beatle George Harrison to autograph a guitar for his son while Harrison was dying and bedridden. Gigante agreed to give Lederman a requested change of venue, writing:
"Something in the folks he treats
Attracts bad press like no other doctor
He's in our jurisdiction now
He gets Beatle autographs somehow
And all I have to do is move this trial
Somewhere they don't know George Harrison
If this case I were to keep
Defendant would gently weep."
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