Judge: Willie Nelson won’t sing in court

Willie Nelson was busted for possession of marijuana at the Border patrol check point in Sierra Blanca, New Mexico in November of 2010.

The Hudspeth County Attorney Kit Bramblett had said Nelson could resolve the charges by pleading guilty, paying a fine – and singing “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” for the court.

Originally Bramblett said Judge Becky Dean-Walker demanded Nelson appear in court, not plead by mail. Later on the Texas judge said Willie Nelson can plead guilty without coming to court and won’t have to sing in court to resolve marijuana possession charges. The suggestion that he do so was a joke. Dean-Walker thinks the prosecutor was trying to be funny, “and it got out of hand.”  Willie Nelson has declined to comment on the sentencing suggestion.

I personally would have loved to have been in that court room and heard that rendition.

Posted by David Siqueiros