By David Tulis A constitution-minded laborer who offended members of a jury was sentenced to probation and a fine for his exercise of rights forgotten by Tennesseans since the 1930s. A judge who had blithely ignored his challenges over jurisdiction and who engaged in a pattern of irregular behavior from the bench sentence Arthur Jay Hirsch at a hearing in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., in circuit court. Judge Stella Hargrove had refused to recuse herself after ethics charges were filed against her, and used the hearing to smear Mr. Hirsch with inflammatory names the use of which she had rightly forbidden at … Continue reading Hirsch gets probation, F$2,000 fine for courageous stand