Judge Targets Men, Brown Motion Says

Football legend Jim Brown on Thursday lashed back at a judge who ordered him into domestic abuse counseling for smashing his wife’s car with a shovel, accusing the jurist of “waging a war against all men” and targeting him for disgrace.

Five weeks after a jury convicted him of misdemeanor vandalism, the 63-year-old Brown announced that he is filing a motion to overturn his conviction and the judge’s order that he attend counseling.

Brown said he has hired a new lawyer. In a lengthy motion peppered with sharp references to feminists and race, Brown charged that Judge Dale S. Fischer was prejudiced against him because she belongs to a professional association of feminist lawyers, and that she should recuse herself from his case.

The motion, filed in Hollywood Municipal Court, also claims that the judge wrongly conducted association business within the courthouse.

“Fischer is the CEO of a radical and extremist group of white upper-class women who target men of color, including Jim Brown,” the motion said. “If Jim Brown does not disclose this, then other men of color, and not of color, will fall victim to this ‘hanging’ judge.”

Fischer is contesting the claim and said she will file a response within 10 days. The motion will be considered by another judge.

In court documents, Brown claims that Fischer operates a charitable organization through a chapter of the American Inns of Court Foundation. American Inns of Court are groups of lawyers, judges and law students who gather to discuss the legal profession.

“Judge Fischer has nullified the jury verdict and has imposed a sentence designed to scar Jim Brown with a domestic violence stigma. . . . Jim Brown was selected as a corporate target.”

At a court hearing Thursday, Brown was scheduled to show proof that he had enrolled in domestic abuse counseling.

However, Fischer temporarily waived that requirement, as well as the other terms of Brown’s sentencing.

Brown has yet to enroll in counseling, according to his new lawyer, Frank Williams Jr. But Deputy City Atty. Grace Kim Lee said Brown will not succeed in avoiding the requirement.

Last month, a jury convicted Brown of smashing his wife’s car with a shovel during a squabble but acquitted him of threatening to snap his wife’s neck.

Monique Brown, 25, had initially told police that her husband threatened to kill her, but recanted and said she made the story up to get even with her husband, who she thought was having an affair.

In addition to ordering Brown to attend counseling for domestic batterers, Fischer sentenced him to three years’ probation, stripped him of his driver’s license for a year, fined him $1,800 and required him to work 40 days for a graffiti removal program.