# Racist judge retires early

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-judge-retires-early/820383>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 27, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-judge-retires-early/820383 "2018-08-27T22:07:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-judge-retires-early/820383/1 "2018-08-27T22:07:50Z")

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Story [here](https://abovethelaw.com/2018/08/florida-judge-has-moment-of-racist-stupidity-followed-immediately-by-ultimate-clarity).

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> A local judge in Florida, Palm Beach County Judge Peter Evans, was caught — on the record — referring to a black lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Sheldon Graves, as “the other gorilla defense counsel.”
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> He’d already intended to retire in January, but the incident sped up those plans.

Too bloody right.