A local Alabama judge presided over a drunken driving case wearing a robe with the Ten Commandments embroidered on the front in gold. The lawyer for the defendant objected, on the grounds the robe might prejudice jurors against his client. Judge Ashley McKathan overruled him, saying, “you can’t divorce the law from the truth.” He said the jury probably couldn’t read the embroidered “Thou shalt not’s” on his robe, anyway. “I had a choice of several sizes of letters,” he said. “I purposely chose a size that would not be in anybody’s face.”
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