While in South Carolina, I recently saw a television commercial where a man standing in a courtroom, wearing a judge's robe, states that he has been on the bench for over 19 years and that people who have been in a car wreck should contact a certain lawyer, whereupon that lawyer appears, putting his hand on the judge's shoulder, thanking the judge, and telling people to contact him to get the money that they deserve.

Every year, on the anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, White would present Holmes with a red rose to wear on his judge's robe.

Her husband, Breeze Chanti, helped her don a judge's robe for the first time, as her 14 black-robed Lane County Circuit colleagues looked on.

An employee in the front office checked in the prestigious visitor and joked: "Oh, put your judge's robe on.

You don't slip character on like a judge's robe; it's either with you or it isn't.

"You'll have inspiring women wearing judge's robes, sitting in county commission and city council meetings, serving in our legislature, and now representing us in Congress, and it all just happened in one fell swoop," Holt told the Post.

'Why don't you sit at the head table?' I asked them, 'That is your rightful place!' 'For us this is the head table!' said a man in judge's robes who I felt had just been sworn in, 'There's more I can do here, then there!' I looked back sadly at other leaders with their feet up on the head table.!

So I asked Eirwyn Pontshan, a stand-up from the south of the county - whose book Hyfryd Iawn ("Very Nice") was our very first publication - to dress up in judge's robes and condemn various Welsh politicians to time in the cells under Welsh law, and one (George Thomas) to the gallows!

CONTROVERSIAL Judge Blton at her hearing, and below, in her Judge's robes

The two-foot-tall stuffed toys wear judge's robes and sit on either side of Eaton's bench, where children are invited to come up and talk with them.

The idea that the state -whether hiding itself behind a judge's robes or not -should even have a voice in whether a journalist's report was unfounded is utterly shocking.''

"Good morning, your honor," she heard Toreador Pants say behind her, and turned to see a large, scowling woman wearing judge's robes and a bouffant hairdo enter the cell carrying a big, black leather-bound ledger.

Mature crusader Martin Shaw is back, though this time he has swopped surgical scrubs for a Judge's robes

You could take a half-wit, stick him in a judge's robes, stack the evidence against Lawson in front of him, and they would come to no conclusion other than murder.