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Irene Marsh, 68, was arrested in April for tampering with public records after she allegedly posed as a federal judge and placed in court records a judgment previously issued on her own behalf in a 1988 case. The real judge had changed his mind after writing the original judgment and thrown out her lawsuit, in which she claimed her unleashed dog was unconstitutionally detained.
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Melissa McElroy, 18, on a field trip to a courthouse trial with her high school government class in San Antonio, Texas, in April, recognized a prosecution witness who was a former coworker of hers. She therefore knew the woman was lying on the stand when she said she hadn’t worked since 1985, and during a recess she told the defense lawyer, who put McElroy on the stand to challenge the witness’s credibility.
In May, Texas Rangers catcher Gino Petralli was called twice during an eight-day period for one of baseball’s rarest infractions, catcher interference (with the batter’s swing). He was also called for it once during spring training. The batter all three times was the Minnesota Twins’ Chuck Knoblauch.
