The $65 million Pants Suite -- Update

Update: When I first posted this story, I included a link to the Judge's bio on the DC City Government Web site. The bio has now gone missing. I guess he's even embarrassed the DC City Government. Who'd a thunk that possible?

Recall the story of DC Judge Roy Pearson who is suing a local laundry for $65 million because they lost his pair of pants in 2005?

The case went to trial yesterday. Marc Fisher again has the deets on the judge who would take this family-owned laundry to the cleaners.

Highlights of Judge Roy Pearson's testimony (or I should say lowlights):

After questioning eight witnesses, Pearson spent two hours telling his own story, but as he came to the part about when Soo Chung finally told him she had found the missing pants, the tale of the $10.50 alteration that went awry proved to be too much.

"These are not my pants," Pearson recalled telling Chung when she handed him a pair of gray pants with cuffs. "I have in my adult life, with one exception, never worn pants with cuffs."

"And she said, 'These are your pants.' "

Pearson paused. He struggled to breathe deeply. He could not continue. Pearson blurted a request for a break, stood up, turned around and walked out of the courtroom, tears dripping from his full and reddened eyes.

Again -- why is this guy on the public payroll in the DC Judicial system?