The “Fiddle Man of Lawrenceburg” is urging a judge to find state government in contempt for refusing to show up for a hearing in its efforts to jail him for exercising a constitutionally protected right. Prosecutor Tammy Rettig was a no-show at a May 2 hearing for which Arthur Jay Hirsch waited four hours in a Lawrence County courtroom — but Judge Russell Parkes gave her a pass, rejected Mr. Hirsch’s demands to have the case dismissed on the spot and assigned a makeup hearing for motions to let her smooth things over. By David Tulis Mr. Hirsch, indignant at … Continue reading Fiddle Man says judge should not let prosecutor dance with wooden leg