The Law: Your Honors, You're Under Arrest

In Reno for a four-week course run each summer by the National College of the State Judiciary, seven visiting judges accepted an invitation from Instructor Ronald Fremlin to view local fauna at the New China Club. Two young women who seemed to be inviting companionship struck up a conversation. A bellicose stranger suddenly intervened. "I was with these ladies." he barked, "and I don't like your butting in!" One thing led to another as the barroom tough shoved one of the women from her stool and hit Illinois Judge Robert Dean in the stomach, not once but twice. As the voices...

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