Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Update: After story appears on Nutty News - Judge apologizes for telling woman with cancer to remove hat


Washington - A Benton County judge has apologized for telling a woman with cancer to take a knitted cap off her bald head or leave his courtroom.
"Words can't express how sorry I am," Judge Holly Hollenbeck told the Herald on Monday, a few hours after he spoke with Bev Williams by phone and offered an unconditional apology. Williams, 43, said the District Court judge told her the no-hat rule would no longer apply in his courtroom, but that his apology had nothing to do with the criticism he had drawn for his comments to her on Friday. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace