Miami judge who recognized middle school classmate in her courtroom reunites with him after release from jail
“She’s an inspiration and a motivation to me right now.”
Photo: CBS Miami
Judge Reunites With Middle School Classmate She Recognized In Bond Court
A pair of middle school classmates who met decades later on opposite sides of a courtroom reunited once again under happier circumstances.
Miami-Dade Judge Mindy Glazer recognized Arthur Booth after he was arrested for burglary charges and appeared before her in bond court last summer.
“Did you go to Nautilus for middle school?” the judge asks, leading her former schoolmate, now 49, to burst into tears.
“This was the nicest kid in middle school, he was the best kid in middle school. I used to play football with him, all the kids, and look what has happened,” she said, according to NBC Miami.
Photo: CBS News
Miami judge Mindy Glazer (l.) recognized former middle school classmate Arthur Booth (r.) in her courtroom last summer.
Video of the encounter went viral, and Booth spent 10 months in jail before a guilty plea for burglary and grand theft led to his release into a drug treatment program on Tuesday.
He hugged his family after coming out of court before embracing Glazer, who was waiting for him and encouraged him to stay on the right side of the law.
Photo: CBS News
The jurist was waiting for Booth when he got out of jail on Tuesday, and he said that she is an inspiration to reform his life.
“She’s an inspiration and a motivation to me right now. Mindy is incredible,” Booth told CBS Miami.
“Cause I know where I could’ve been, but I’m not giving up on life.”
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