SSC2004: Story: [Adult]

Story: 'I'LL BE THE JUDGE OF THAT!'

by Alex Birch

Category: Adult

Words: 500

The Judge stared angrily at the young woman who stood trembling in the
box.

'You have told this court a pack of lies from start to finish, young
lady!'

Her pretty face coloured and she stammered 'I..I may have
embellished...' before he banged his gavel on the bench and roared
'Embellished?  Lied in your teeth and you should be ashamed of
yourself!'

The young woman seemed close to tears as the gallery gasped and the
judge leaned forward and glared, before growling,

'Standards of honesty in our society have sunk without trace and your
evidence is a classic example!  If it were within my power I would have
you taken down to the cells right this minute and strapped across a
punishment bench with your knickers down, just like the old days.  A
few strokes of the birch rod across your bare bottom and you'd soon be
changing your ways !'

The girl cried out in horror, bursting into floods of tears as the
public gallery gasped and the barrister leapt to his feet.

'M'lud...' he cried '..this really is too much.  I must insist that...'
but he was cut short by a loud banging of the gavel and an angry
riposte.

'This is MY courtroom and I'll thank you to remember that!' the Judge
barked and stared at the young woman now weeping quietly.  This might
be his last case but by God he would go out in style!!  Doddery they'd
said!!  By God he was only 82 and he'd show 'em!!

He glared at the pretty girl again.

'Stop crying young woman...' he barked '...it carries no weight with
me. Look at your outrageous clothing.  I suppose that turns on the boys
does it? I suppose it's what you young people call 'fetish' wear!  Well
its disgusting! All this stuff is just designed to arouse the worst
instincts in men and lure them into acts of unspeakable debauchery. 
Whore of Babylon!'

The court was in uproar now and the young woman cried out in
desperation but he was in full flow.

'In fact a private birching is too good for the likes of you...' he
snarled '..and, if  I could, I'd order you be taken out to the public
square, stripped naked and given a good whipping.  That would do you
and your sort the world of good!'

Pandemonium reigned now and the room was a sea of noise, lawyers
leaping around trying to be heard but the Judge was in a world of his
own.

'However, young lady, I will simply ask you if you have any pleas of
mitigation before I pass sentence!' and he paused as the court hushed.

The girl stared around the court wild eyed and pointed dramatically at
a young man sitting, convulsed with laughter, next to his lawyer.

'Your honour...' she cried '...HE's the accused.  I'm a police officer
giving evidence for the Crown!'