Aram Berberian had been a Rhode Island lawyer for 31 years when he sent this letter to a member of the Kent County, Rhode Island Courthouse police:

No, unfortunately for movie audio-video engineer and independent filmmaker Dwayne Buckle, it didn't go down like that. Buckle was selling his DVDs on a New York City sidewalk, when things went really, really bad. Here's Buckle's version:

And how is it that trial lawyers get so much bad press? Psychiatrist Juan Ernest Tejeda Rosario was charged with sexual abuse, sexual impropriety, and "disgraceful, dishonourable and unprofessional conduct. The allegation made by two patients (of 15 and 16 years) include:

Timothy Walker (who, per his lawyer, "developed a bizarre theory that all adult males were smelly") was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in New South Wales, Australia. He felt that he was not getting the proper medical attention. So, he told the staff he was feeling better, and was discharged. Eleven days later, he was feeling "a mixture of negative things." He grabbed an extension cord, and climbed a 30-foot tree in his back yard with the intention of hanging himself.

We rejoin “Judge” Wickstrom at the conclusion of his second consecutive nine-month sentence for assuming to act as a public official (judge and clerk). And what, you ask, does Wickstrom do with his newfound freedom? He immediately sues a laundry list of Wisconsin state officials for putting him in prison, including two Attorneys General, the Shawano County District Attorney, several other public officials, witnesses in the criminal case, and “all spouses and kin and/or acquaintences [sic] of the [specifically named] Defendants.” When the state judges refused to grant Wickstrom motion for summary judgment, Wickstrom added the judges to the list of defendants too!