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Remembering Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

By Robert J. Ambrogi

If truth is stranger than fiction, few knew that better than U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer of Dallas, who died this week at the age of 76. Highly regarded as a jurist, Buchmeyer was also well known for his long-running Texas Bar Journal column, "et cetera," which culled real-life humor from actual trials and depositions. The State Bar of Texas turned Buchmeyer's collected material into a blog, Say What?!, where his funny stories live on. In 2006, J. Craig Williams and I had the good fortune to interview Judge Buchmeyer for our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. In the interview, he recounted that it was his first case as a federal judge in 1979 that inspired him to start collecting courtroom humor. The criminal case involved a female defendant who had come to Dallas as part of a scheme to buy $500,000 worth of gold Krugerrands using counterfeit checks. On the witness stand was a man named Dooley Wilson. A retiree whose wife had urged him to go back to work, Wilson was in his first day as a limousine driver when he had the misfortune to pick up the woman en route to purchase the Krugerrands. When the prosecutor asked Wilson...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 25, 2009 (boomark / email).