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Edwardsville, IL -- A man arrested for drug possession on the way to his wedding in Edwardsville, Ill., was married and sentenced in one afternoon by the same judge. The Alton Telegraph reports 25-year-old Ewel Simon Greene Jr. was stopped near the entrance to the Madison County Courthouse on Friday when a sheriff's deputy using a metal-detecting wand found a metal pipe in his pocket. A further search turned up a small bag of marijuana. Greene, who recently moved to Illinois from Florida, was with his fiancee and their infant son. The couple were to be married by Associate Judge Daniel Stack. The deputy planned to release Greene with a notice to appear in court, but then Stack offered to handle both the marriage and the criminal case. The groom was informed of his right to a trial, but Stack told the newspaper that Greene ``wanted to get it over with.'' So the judge conducted the marriage ceremony and then sentenced Greene to a year's probation and a $100 fine. The turn of events prompted Stack to quip, ``We are a full-service courthouse.'' Copyright 1998 United Press International In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 and The Berne Convention on Literary and Artistic Works, Article 10, news clippings are made available without profit for research and educational purposes. |
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