In 1975, a criminal court in Georgia convicted Terry Brown and sentenced him to seven years in prison at hard labor. There was apparently a personality conflict between the presiding judge and members of the appellate court because the judge "demanded that if Judge Randall Evans, Jr. ever again was so presumptious as to reverse one of his decisions, that the opinion be written in poetry."
The appellate court did precisely that. Judge Dunbar Harrison composed the reversal of Brown's conviction in proper rhyme. You can read the full poem/decision at Justia and an article about it and other instances of judical humor in the University of California Law Journal.
-via Jarvis Best
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