Archives & History Committee Interview of Judge Charles Randy Butler, Jr. on Aug [53:05-58:08]

outside of the courtroom are really, you know, really discouraging, but anyway, uh, so I've seen a lot of changes, yeah. Any, any particular case, uh, that you, uh, presided over as a, as a district court judge, sticking them out a lot of them, I mean, you know, I tried to, the case where Land of Men's and others were indicting for, uh, male fall, but basically for a scene to, uh, to fall a man who developed a method to take the garbage and mobile, convert it, convert it to steam and sell the steam to denusa, which was in existence back then, uh, and they were, they were former city, uh, yeah, he was, he was, he was, he was a city commissioner, he was, he was the public court commissioner and, uh, prior to that case, and then a major drug case, a good Russian, uh, Reagan, you know, he had a really tough on crime policy and, uh, Jeff Sessions was a part of that, and so we had a huge, multi-dependent drug case, I mean, uh, but unusual to me to, to try at the same time, uh, five, ten, even a dozen defendants at the same time with multiple lawyers, and, you know, I just, I love that sort of thing, uh, but let me go back a minute to my private practice, I think one of the, one of the many of the funniest cases of a lawyer when I was in private practice after the DA was the, uh, J.C. postpartum of the room area in the year in English constant, but it was back in, uh, late Saturdays, maybe early eighties, they had a mystery fish, and if you call the mystery fish, you would win 50,000 bottles, longer than one of it was hearing it. So, I'm a, some kind of, uh, wildlife, maybe, I've had a lot of problems with ductile, whether it did military wildlife, all sorts of environmental goods, and a man comes up to me and said, in the distance of this man, he said, hey, uh, Mr. and Renny, probably, this is, so it's a, he won the mystery fish, the 50,000 dollar prize, but they don't want a penny, and I said, what was that all about, you know, really? So, uh, the, uh, more to one than our, a little neighbor, they could be wrong, one of the top firms in Mobile, and they buy, buy, I guess it's a very, very good gentleman actually, to, to try to prove that they were just, because who, well, here's what the issue was, the problem was, the man who tagged the mystery fish with a speck of fire was the best friend with the guy who called it, and so my client who called it was station, you know, and tried it before the guy clearly told it was, and after the day in the hair of the trial, there was no evidence to deny the payment. So, 50,000 dollars were down there, and this is back, you know, the late 70s, and it was pretty good, and I don't think the man will get a nice fee. So, as the judgment was announced, the, so the judge, whoever it was, was handed something by somebody, and there's the, well, this is the difference, and here's the dollarsment for this F1, he, the client, my client, was not paying child support at home, he for 11 years, he owes, it was like 40,000 dollars, and so, of course, so I got a pretty good fee out of what we left over, so, he wanted, and then I did, you know, one of the most difficult attorney, one of the, one of the really important things that I had, our co-op aluminum, which had, quote, a plant by then, it was on the west side of the movie, where it was on the east side, and it's huge types of the aluminum, where it's a pop side, where it's an ejaculate extractor aluminum, and it would leave them in the poem that day. So, Bob Adams, representative of co-op, and I, as DA, and it's a lawyer, calls them to reach an agreement, that they will stand a million dollars, protecting the sea beach from those dikes, but couldn't even ditch all around the bottom of it, so it didn't further contaminate the home cat bay, and so that, you know, those kind of things, it's like a civil lawyer, whether it's DA, but let me ask you this, I don't, I don't, most conversation could evolve into political discussions nowadays, from acrimonious and divided, but let me just think their thoughts on that, what are your views on that poem in direction of law these days, and over