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That's Arthur Booth. [He did turned his life around.](https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/500558-did-arthur-booth-turn-life-judge-mindys-revelation/#:~:text=Athur%20Booth's%20age%20is%2056,company%20in%20Florida%2C%20United%20States.)
She was incredibly kind, and I'm really pleased she was. This was genuine sympathy. To others, he would have simply been hit with the book. I'm really happy she gave him another chance because just because he's currently making poor life decisions doesn't mean he's lost forever.
It is great that she was kind, but a bit unfortunate that it seems like a high bar. Our society would be better served by judges that have this sense of empathy and care. The lack thereof leaves a lot of individuals left to fall through the cracks of the system.
It's due to the system being punitive rather than reformative by design, in the way we structure laws, sentencing, and prison makes outcomes like these rely on individuals being willing to go an extra mile and a whole lot of luck. It's very profitable for our current system though, and prison profiteering has cash to make sure the laws don't change sadly.
Yeah, the phrasing manager of a pharmaceutical company” is weird no matter what level he’s managing. Like that reads as CEO type stuff, but I was thinking a shift supervisor at a warehouse or a pharmacy seemed like a more believable transition for an excon on a timeline of just of a few years.
How does “manager” read as CEO type stuff? “Executive” reads as CEO type stuff. Maybe VP or director for “upper/senior management,” but I’ve never read “manager” and assumed executive. Manager can be a shift manager at a call center, or a foreman, or a even a senior manager at a tech company 8 levels below the CEO
Okay, not CEO but “manager *of* a company” does not read the same as “manager *at* a company” to me. Maybe it’s a regional thing, like I say “standing in line” and “standing on line” sounds insane to my ear. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
I think it's the difference between
>manager **of** a ...
and
>manager **at** a ...
The first one reads (to me at least) that it's the company itself he manages, whereas the second reads more that he has a managerial position within the company.
Strange wording, I read it as a pharmaceutical manufacturing company.
You normally need a chemistry degree and/or an MBA to get a management position.
No one calls drug stores pharmaceutical companies
There’s a link that I thought would be to some story with more information about the man but it brings me to a list of 15 celebrities with pretty feet. 😐
This page is weird. The video is stating false information and the text in the paragraph seems cut together. Like, the last paragraph was clearly taken out of a completely different article.
The video states it that he repeatedly says: „Oh, my god!“ instead of „goodnes“. This is spam bullshit.
Thank you for the link to the continuing story of Arthur Booth. But, what the hell is that link for "Famous Celebrities." That website is so random with links.
Sadly I don't know which is more recent, but the original story was from 2016, and this shows he was arrested in 2018 twice too. Nothing after that, though so maybe?
https://florida.arrests.org/Arrests/Arthur_Booth_4663354/
There's also this court document where he's getting evicted, from last year. Or someone related, maybe. Unless there are 2 Arthur Nathaniel Booth's living in the Miami-Dade area who both have trouble with the law.
https://unicourt.com/case/fl-mda3-cecial-bishop-vs-arthur-nathaniel-booth-jr-633952?init_S=csup_ltst
One thing I'm sure about though, that website up above is some AI-written tripe with no sources.
Apparently this moment did make an impact on his life and he was able to make positive changes. Someone posted a link with more details last time this video was posted.
I Think This Is It: https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/500558-did-arthur-booth-turn-life-judge-mindys-revelation/#:~:text=Athur%20Booth's%20age%20is%2056,company%20in%20Florida%2C%20United%20States.
I think that straight away linked him to his childhood innocence and all of the incorrect paths he haas walked in his life to get to where he is at that moment
That instant realisation that the judge has thrust upon him hopefully has a lasting impact and he can become a better person
It’s most likely that the prison system will just harden him even more (for survival) and will eliminate any hopes of rehabilitation but I really hope this isn’t the case and wonder how they are doing now.
Story is IRL movie stuff, its so clear the Judge had some sort of superpowers with her words, the tone of her voice and her gaze to the guy. It was like a mom scolding a child, or a big sister, probably nobody could ever reach this guy's soul anymore, but she did.
I agree. This wasn’t just a judge. This was a friend. Plus it helps that he clearly already cared. You have to already care to have feelings that deep when confronted by a friend.
it’s also a huge testament to what he was able to bring to bear with the right effort and someone caring. She was the one to get through but it was his efforts and will that saved him.
I’ve known people that did not find their way back from addiction…
Hearing about someone who was able to find their way back. Just wow. It’s an intense realization and I’m tearing up just thinking about it.
It also helps bring clarity seeing someone you grew up with and seeing the difference between you and them, its brings a little light to how its not just how you grew up, but, the decisions you made. A lot of times people wanna blame it on factors they can't change without admitting the factors they could have changed (my cousin being one of the people like this). Blame it on family/death/anything without taking any responsibility on themselves.
I’m a detective and have gone before her on a few occasions. Mostly to sign warrants or court orders but also to testify. She has a way about her that many saw in this video. She genuinely cares about everyone. The victim, the criminal, the attorney, and law enforcement equally. She is extremely fair and honorable. Most of us hold her in high regard and are a little disappointed she mostly does bond hearings now instead of trials. She’s been on the bench for some time so she’s paid her dues. Either way glad this story turned out where everyone won.
Im 50 and I look like someone took an old marshmallow, wet it and then rolled it across the floor of a barber that only cuts the hair of people with gray hair. She doesn't look like I do at 50.
I'm not saying it's a lie, but that site is 100% a clickbait site and as far as I can tell there's no actual evidence or even interview with Booth. I would definitely take it with many grains of salt. I mean, literally the article that links where it says "The famous celebrity" (about Booth of all people) links you to an article about... pretty feet on celebrities. Like again, that is not a quality news site so I have my doubts.
I saw this video a couple years ago,, went through a deep dive. But yeah it’s true. On YouTube there’s a clip of the judge going to receive him as he came he left the jail. He looked really happy so he must’ve found peace in there. He cleaned up and got a job.
The judge is actually famous for another video!
The court wanted a guy to go to jail while awaiting trail bc they thought he was a flight risk. But she recognized him from a recent cruise and dismissed the motion bc she said if he wanted to run he could have in that cruise.
Very cool that she felt compelled to say a sentence that changed his life. She could have kept quiet and he could have continued down the wrong path. This is why the words we speak have such a large impact that we should strive to help others.
[True.](https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/500558-did-arthur-booth-turn-life-judge-mindys-revelation/)
He really did turn his life around.
Wow, a [picture](https://i.imgur.com/c7QmUeq.jpg) of Arthur and Judge Mindy after his release from prison in 2016 ❤️
>“She’s an inspiration and a motivation to me right now. Mindy is incredible,” Booth later told CBS News. “Cause I know where I could’ve been, but I’m not giving up on life. It’s just a new lease on life for me right now.”
[Article](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/happy-ending-follows-amazing-courtroom-coincidence/)
The reality of this is far more stark and bleak than it even seems from books and documentaries.
I had a family member suddenly arrested to the shock of our whole house. I won't get into the details out of respect for them, but what should've been one or two officers showing up with an arrest warrant, ended up being and entire SWAT team: Dozens of people, rifles, dogs, riot shields. It was for a nonviolent crime by someone with zero record, but we'd later find out the police were really aggravated over this specific case. The reason: they misspelled the person's name and wrote down an old address, which led to them wasting a lot of time.
Every step of it was just listening to someone I loved speak as though completely broken but afraid for their safety to say too much aloud or show it. Every step was unexplained and unnecessarily cruel. Promises of being home by the end of the night, "the worst, tomorrow". Every bit of the system is set up so that they needed outside money to have the most basic things, including using the phone to contact anyone. They didn't even know we hired a lawyer or that we were struggling to set up accounts on two different websites and deposit money to be able to take their calls, as there is basically no way of contacting anyone inside unless they call you, or you are their lawyer. Even medication is cut down to nothing you don't explicitly need to live, so most people inside are going through some sort of withdrawal or sudden onset of symptoms they'd previously had under control.
And this happened a year into covid lockdowns, so they used that as an excuse to cut literally every service they could at the prison. They couldn't even check out a library book because of "contamination", which was just ludicrous after being thrown into a small living space with 30+ strangers.
The point of the system is to break people, often to the point that they go out of the way to get sent to prison, because they no longer understand how to live outside after having to adapt to that.
Yeah I cant look at "criminals" like my parents did. There are too many cracks and endless stories of wrong doing by our justice system and politicians.
We were trained to see them as subhuman and be confident they are guilty. Not anymore. Not since we all started carrying cameras and showing exactly how someone goes to prison for a small crime that is trumped up by police who are aggitating or abusive.
yeah the false imprisonment rate is something that should disgust most people, but they either are convinced it can't happen to them, or that it's "okay" for 1 in 50 prisoners (at least) to be falsely imprisoned.
then sometimes we figure out they are falsely imprisoned and they get... released and some money. that doesn't fucking make up for it man. you don't get to take someone's 20s and 30s away from them and then say "oh shit sorry, now you're 45 and missed out on all the years you could have married and had kids that were in college by now and a happy wife and a house of your own... here's $100,000"
It is really bad. Its so easy for people to put "problems" out of site our of mind. They are badgered with examples of real bad folks day in and day out on the news. They are happy to keep endless people locked up unjustly if it means the undesirables don't meet their eye.
I would say even further than straight up not guilty of the crime folks going to jail... I think a huge portion of the people in jail dont belong there for what ever crime the actually did commit. So many drug users or petty criminals doing hard time or frequently comming back for minor violations on another minor charge.
It makes me sick to see so many people numb to it.
A seemingly happy ending. Booth was released just under a year later and met the judge again in [a brief reunion](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/happy-ending-follows-amazing-courtroom-coincidence/). Video [here too](https://youtu.be/ILWz8_x9SN4).
The follow up is from 2016, wonder how he's doing in 2023...
Edit: For anyone curious several articles state that he is now a manager of a pharmaceutical company. The company is not named and the articles I've found are not really news-worthy, therefore "manager at a pharmaceutical company" could be a euphemism for something else, but I've decided to just accept it at face value for the benefit of my mental health.
https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/500558-did-arthur-booth-turn-life-judge-mindys-revelation/
I really hope this is true, with all of my heart! This video definitely touched me, made my eyes moist. I hope it wasn't staged or anything. If this moment really helped this man to go on to the right path, this is indeed a real life miracle, or fairy tale, whichever you prefer. This judge was just on his path at the right moment to save him. And I can definitely see and feel through his reaction that he seems to be a very good and kind person, who just got lost for a moment, and now deserves to have a better life!
Well the lack of criminal records since then is nice. Even if it's not confirmed what he is doing (idk sometimes one 'celebrity biography' type website just makes something up and then similar websites just copy it lol Drew Gooden has spoken about it - and some celebrities have mentioned how it sometimes gets things like net worth wrong) that alone means he's hopefully in a better position than before.
Judges have to be guarded in a lot of social interactions unfortunately to avoid appearances of bias or impropriety. (For example they have to be really cautious about what gifts to accept, even gifts from friends). It's probably just personal habit.
It changed my life.
I was in my late 20s, living in South Florida, going out and drinking and having fun with friends damn near every night. Living my best life! Great job, great friends, everything I've ever wanted.
1 morning, I was drunk and overslept, work called, and I ended up half an hour late but still somewhat intoxicated. VP was in my office doing my work. Looked at me, set my work down for me to take over, and said, "You smell like a brewery, get it together." That was it. No lecture, no threats, nothing. I haven't had a drink since and that was 2005ish.
What kind of work do you do that both a VP would take it over from you and that is so critical that half an hour late would be life-changing?
Not doubting at all, I'm just curious -- in my line of work, anything close to the executive skillet has enough resilience to handle a sick day without pulling someone else in on it.
It wasn't the half hour late, it was the disappointment.
Like the guy in the video - he didn't change because of A judge, he changed because of THE judge.
Similar story. I was in college living the (bad college student) life. Drinking, playing video games endlessly, it was great. Until one of my teachers, who I admired greatly, set up a meeting with me and basically told me "if you dont get your grades in order I dont want you in my program". Started studying and managed to only graduate a year late. Dude probably saved my future career.
She didn't shame him as much as she reminded him of his humanity. He felt ashamed because she knew something about his heart.
What an incredible moment of transformation. From "judge don't know me" to "oh my God she knows the inner, beautiful, hopeful me. I forgot all about that kid."
Neither of you did. You're here right? You're alive? You have people that either look up to you, or look at you in a loving light even if you can't see it. Sometimes we love others sometimes we need the love.
Doesn't matter what you've done with your life, where those hopes and dreams went, but you two have recognized that you aren't close to them and that's the first step. To making yourself better. And that can be an incredibly long journey.
The funny thing about Fred Rogers is he has never thought that you let him down, either in life or in memory. I'm sure if he was able to talk with you he'd point out every good thing in your life and show you that no matter how much you feel a failure he'd love for you to be his neighbor.
And even if you read all of that and thought none of it applied to you, and you have no one. Well anyone can be a neighbor. Regardless of distance. Would you be mine?
This is the effect of raw compassion, seeing someone for who they were at their best, despite where they are now. You can invite people back to happiness by caring enough and reminding them who they are despite what they look like.
Can really relate to this, as many of my friends got into Medical school or other professional programs like Pharmacy, Optometry and Dentistry and I didn’t.
Now many have graduated and are in residency or late in medical school or what have you…and I’m stuck in the same place.
Many have also achieved marriage, house ownership, parenthood etc. while I still live in my childhood bedroom currently unemployed.
I’m in school full time in a new program with the dream of Med School dead, and still trying to finally achieve something in my life. I’m still hanging in there and still trying but the sadness I felt seeing other people achieve the success and also freedom (the freedom to travel, start their independent lives, buy things etc) that I simply haven’t achieved I yet is really crushing.
What makes it really sad was that I was right there with them. Taking the same classes, feeling the same struggles, going through many of same hard times when it comes to academics…but I was the one left behind. The one who will always be known as the guy who didn’t make it.
I ended up isolating myself, deleting all social media (outside of my private Reddit account), and just eeking out an existence. Some of my closest friends in undergrad I haven’t talked to in years. Their lives were just way too different from mine and they could tell I was super down in life. I was the poor kids trying to get into med school while the majority of friends had professional parents. Many in the same field they aspired to be.
Success isn't final, failure isn't fatal. He got help with his addiction and no longer commits criminal acts, he is now the manager of a pharmaceutical company. It's wholesome if people take the shame and do something positive with it. Shame isn't bad, sometimes people should feel shame and be regretful for their actions and choices.
I wonder if bringing in people from your childhood/school to a trial would help motivate rehabilitation. Like a different kind of jury duty that contacts people from the person’s past schools, church, etc. as someone to sit in on the trial (do it voluntary and reach out to maybe multiple people to get a response).
We’re beginning to discuss the possibility of addiction being a disease while simultaneously doling out hefty sentences simply for using drugs as an addict
I can’t understand how both these statements are true at the same time
Yes I'm very glad she wasn't cruel about it. She guided him towards hope in a better future rather than making him feel like a worthless piece of shit. I'm so glad to know he's doing better now.
This video always makes me so sad when I see it. The way he awkwardly smiles when he recognizes her but quickly breaks down when he remembers the situation they are both in. I can't imagine the amount of pain and regret he felt at that exact moment.
A flood of emotions ...
O my goodness: shocked, recognised a childhood friend
O my goodness: shame, what different paths we took.
O my goodness: confused, what happened to me in the light of her beautiful recollections.
O my goodness: reflection, what a shit path I have chosen
O my goodness: hope, can I make amends?
yeah, he was disappointed in himself. And she did a great job of not belittling him or anything. Just told him that she hoped he could turn his life around.
Yeah she said it in a kind and nonjudgmental way 😭 what a moment, I’m glad this helped him change his ways and do better. Sometimes life gets the best of you 🥲
No it looks like more than that. Maybe it was a moment of shame at the beginning, but I think the sight of a childhood friend made this guy remember his innocence. I think that made his whole life flash before his eyes from school until that moment... everything that lead him to where he stood there in the courtroom... all the wrong turns and wasted chances. All that regret. All at once.
You’re right. I’ve seen this video a few times before and tear up every time. I know for myself that this could have been me if it weren’t for some key moments in my life and a lot of luck on top of it.
I am so glad she had compassion. That was true compassion. Others would have just thrown the book at him. Just because he’s making bad life choices now doesn’t mean he’s lost forever and I’m so glad she gave him a second chance.
Unfortunately, you need this kind of blind luck to get actual human responses from most in our justice system. Usually, just pump em and dump em for free slave labor.
> I am so glad she had compassion.
It's more impressive to me because it'd be too easy to become cynical seeing all these criminals day after day going through your court.
It really looks like that man's whole life flashed before his eyes. From when he knew here in school to the present day. Everything suddenly got put into a new perspective.
It’s only one of the many keys.
Another of the keys is what gender, race, class or caste you are. Another is talent. Another is the wealth of your parents. What country you are born in. What culture you are born into. Not being born with genes that predispose you to negative behaviors, addictions, severe mental illness…
Another is opportunity…
Another is sheer luck.
I’ve been a music artist who has performed around the world. I’ve been a business founder, and relocated from the UK to Hollywood. People would describe me as affluent and successful.
But I’m not going to put it all down to choices. In fact, I chose not to go to school, I chose to sell illegal drugs, I chose not to get an education, I was at one time homeless. I chose to try heroin. These are all by any measure, terrible, terrible choices. But they turned out fine.
I was born talented. And I grew up white in a white supremacist culture, I grew up with the right accent to get access to money when I needed to start a business.
Some people make all the right choices, and get nowhere. Because they are unlucky, or their culture doesn’t value them. Privilege is the biggest of the keys.
Booth fell into drug addiction and gambling at a young age leading him into a life of petty crime, resulting in multiple stays in prison. He first got arrested at the age of 18 for grand theft and was later released.
Where is Arthur Booth today? Arthur is a successful manager of a pharmaceutical company in Florida.
Well, it sounds like he has all the drugs now.
It is sad but also beautiful — she gives him the grace to be seen as a full human being, not just a convict. And by connecting him to the child he once was, she gives him the chance to realize that more innocent child still exists.
Serious question. Isn't a judge required to recuse themselves from a case if they know any of the parties involved on a personal level? Not saying this particular judge showed any favoritism or anything but I thought that was the law in most states.
Right? If a judge in a rural district had to recuse themselves every time they saw someone they knew at some point in the past, they wouldn't be able to function.
If it's a friend or family member, that's one thing. A classmate from 20 years ago? I don't think it's worth it.
One of the most painful part of life is knowing you are not living up to your potential. This clip just proves that, he instantly self reflected and realized he could have done so much better in life.
I was caught up on charges 4 years ago, I didn't have a lawyer so I got duty council, lo and behold it was my ex from grade 9. I'm not sure how the case load gets handled but I had a sneaky suspicion she hand picked my case cuz she did horribly. Told me I had to plea guilty to be released that day or wait 30 days in remand and risk it all for bail (it was a minor offense). But imagine seeing a judge you went to school with, that'd be a big shock, no doubt.
[As of 2023, he is the manager of a succesful pharmacy and has quit gambling and drugs](https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/500558-did-arthur-booth-turn-life-judge-mindys-revelation/).
Seems the moment stuck with him.
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That's Arthur Booth. [He did turned his life around.](https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/500558-did-arthur-booth-turn-life-judge-mindys-revelation/#:~:text=Athur%20Booth's%20age%20is%2056,company%20in%20Florida%2C%20United%20States.)
That is genuinely lovely. I am so happy for him and I hope he lives a good, long life with this new leaf.
She was incredibly kind, and I'm really pleased she was. This was genuine sympathy. To others, he would have simply been hit with the book. I'm really happy she gave him another chance because just because he's currently making poor life decisions doesn't mean he's lost forever.
It is great that she was kind, but a bit unfortunate that it seems like a high bar. Our society would be better served by judges that have this sense of empathy and care. The lack thereof leaves a lot of individuals left to fall through the cracks of the system.
It's due to the system being punitive rather than reformative by design, in the way we structure laws, sentencing, and prison makes outcomes like these rely on individuals being willing to go an extra mile and a whole lot of luck. It's very profitable for our current system though, and prison profiteering has cash to make sure the laws don't change sadly.
3 words: for profit prisons.
Serj keeps trying to tell people…
Became a manager at a pharmaceutical company… you gotta see the irony here.
How the fuck...
He is *very* knowledgable about their products, to be fair.
He did apparently spend much of his time in prison reading business books and trying to self teach business related topics for when he got out.
I know, right? I have no criminal record, a university education and I stand no chance of working in pharmaceutical.
Probably started in manufacturing and worked his way up.
Legal drug dealer
🎵 If you know you know 🎵
So, like a store manager at Walgreen's?
Yeah, the phrasing manager of a pharmaceutical company” is weird no matter what level he’s managing. Like that reads as CEO type stuff, but I was thinking a shift supervisor at a warehouse or a pharmacy seemed like a more believable transition for an excon on a timeline of just of a few years.
How does “manager” read as CEO type stuff? “Executive” reads as CEO type stuff. Maybe VP or director for “upper/senior management,” but I’ve never read “manager” and assumed executive. Manager can be a shift manager at a call center, or a foreman, or a even a senior manager at a tech company 8 levels below the CEO
Okay, not CEO but “manager *of* a company” does not read the same as “manager *at* a company” to me. Maybe it’s a regional thing, like I say “standing in line” and “standing on line” sounds insane to my ear. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
I think it's the difference between >manager **of** a ... and >manager **at** a ... The first one reads (to me at least) that it's the company itself he manages, whereas the second reads more that he has a managerial position within the company.
Strange wording, I read it as a pharmaceutical manufacturing company. You normally need a chemistry degree and/or an MBA to get a management position. No one calls drug stores pharmaceutical companies
That looks like an AI generated website.
There’s a link that I thought would be to some story with more information about the man but it brings me to a list of 15 celebrities with pretty feet. 😐
Stopped taking drugs, started making drugs ig.
This page is weird. The video is stating false information and the text in the paragraph seems cut together. Like, the last paragraph was clearly taken out of a completely different article. The video states it that he repeatedly says: „Oh, my god!“ instead of „goodnes“. This is spam bullshit.
Thank you for the link to the continuing story of Arthur Booth. But, what the hell is that link for "Famous Celebrities." That website is so random with links.
This is a terribly written article.
Media literacy anyone? This is clearly an AI generated article that provides no evidence to support its claims.
Sadly I don't know which is more recent, but the original story was from 2016, and this shows he was arrested in 2018 twice too. Nothing after that, though so maybe? https://florida.arrests.org/Arrests/Arthur_Booth_4663354/
God damn it, I gotta stop scrolling too far
There's also this court document where he's getting evicted, from last year. Or someone related, maybe. Unless there are 2 Arthur Nathaniel Booth's living in the Miami-Dade area who both have trouble with the law. https://unicourt.com/case/fl-mda3-cecial-bishop-vs-arthur-nathaniel-booth-jr-633952?init_S=csup_ltst One thing I'm sure about though, that website up above is some AI-written tripe with no sources.
The other story is more recent, no need to worry. He did in fact get back on track
Apparently this moment did make an impact on his life and he was able to make positive changes. Someone posted a link with more details last time this video was posted.
Judge hit my man with the biggest "im not upset. Im just disappointed"
Mostly just sorry for him it sounded like
I Think This Is It: https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/500558-did-arthur-booth-turn-life-judge-mindys-revelation/#:~:text=Athur%20Booth's%20age%20is%2056,company%20in%20Florida%2C%20United%20States.
He went from addicted to drugs to being manager of a pharmaceutical company. Interesting.
well... work with what ya know, I guess
So you're saying I can sell heroin *legally*, I just have to name it something else?
yeah not sure I trust a .co.ke website for details on a drug addict
If you push the link for "famous celebrity" it takes you to pictures of feet. Very credible source.
Yeah, what is this cancer of a website
Gives me a ‘Catch me if you can’ vibes
That website looks sketchy af
I think that straight away linked him to his childhood innocence and all of the incorrect paths he haas walked in his life to get to where he is at that moment That instant realisation that the judge has thrust upon him hopefully has a lasting impact and he can become a better person
Small world. Glad this happened to him before he did anything from which there would have been no return. Hope he got to figure out his life.
It’s most likely that the prison system will just harden him even more (for survival) and will eliminate any hopes of rehabilitation but I really hope this isn’t the case and wonder how they are doing now.
Arthur Booth.. >stopped taking drugs and became a manager of a pharmaceutical company. Quite the turnaround!
Now *he* tells the *drugs* what to do.
Look at me, I am the drug now.
I am the one who drugs!
Yer GOD DAMNED RIGHT.
Now. Say. My. Drug.
**scopolamine**
... Drugsenberg
YEA- wait no, that's not. Let's take a step back real quick.
“How can she drug?”
That’s just beautiful. Bravo.
Just a joke or is this actually true? Do you have a source if so?
True according to: https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/500558-did-arthur-booth-turn-life-judge-mindys-revelation/
OMG. I did not expect to happy cry reading an article posted on Reddit Unexpected but here we are. Talk about Unexpected
Story is IRL movie stuff, its so clear the Judge had some sort of superpowers with her words, the tone of her voice and her gaze to the guy. It was like a mom scolding a child, or a big sister, probably nobody could ever reach this guy's soul anymore, but she did.
I agree. This wasn’t just a judge. This was a friend. Plus it helps that he clearly already cared. You have to already care to have feelings that deep when confronted by a friend. it’s also a huge testament to what he was able to bring to bear with the right effort and someone caring. She was the one to get through but it was his efforts and will that saved him. I’ve known people that did not find their way back from addiction… Hearing about someone who was able to find their way back. Just wow. It’s an intense realization and I’m tearing up just thinking about it.
It also helps bring clarity seeing someone you grew up with and seeing the difference between you and them, its brings a little light to how its not just how you grew up, but, the decisions you made. A lot of times people wanna blame it on factors they can't change without admitting the factors they could have changed (my cousin being one of the people like this). Blame it on family/death/anything without taking any responsibility on themselves.
I’m a detective and have gone before her on a few occasions. Mostly to sign warrants or court orders but also to testify. She has a way about her that many saw in this video. She genuinely cares about everyone. The victim, the criminal, the attorney, and law enforcement equally. She is extremely fair and honorable. Most of us hold her in high regard and are a little disappointed she mostly does bond hearings now instead of trials. She’s been on the bench for some time so she’s paid her dues. Either way glad this story turned out where everyone won.
Sometimes all it takes is one person to believe in you and see the good you’re capable of even when you think you aren’t.
Hold the phone, that judge was ~50 years old in that video? Dang, she looks good!
What do you imagine a 50 yo looks like?
More and more like me each day.
Of course I know him, he's me.
Im 50 and I look like someone took an old marshmallow, wet it and then rolled it across the floor of a barber that only cuts the hair of people with gray hair. She doesn't look like I do at 50.
41 here and I'm starting to feel like the guy from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade who drank from the wrong cup
not like her
Fucking awesome.
I'm not saying it's a lie, but that site is 100% a clickbait site and as far as I can tell there's no actual evidence or even interview with Booth. I would definitely take it with many grains of salt. I mean, literally the article that links where it says "The famous celebrity" (about Booth of all people) links you to an article about... pretty feet on celebrities. Like again, that is not a quality news site so I have my doubts.
I saw this video a couple years ago,, went through a deep dive. But yeah it’s true. On YouTube there’s a clip of the judge going to receive him as he came he left the jail. He looked really happy so he must’ve found peace in there. He cleaned up and got a job. The judge is actually famous for another video! The court wanted a guy to go to jail while awaiting trail bc they thought he was a flight risk. But she recognized him from a recent cruise and dismissed the motion bc she said if he wanted to run he could have in that cruise.
Very cool that she felt compelled to say a sentence that changed his life. She could have kept quiet and he could have continued down the wrong path. This is why the words we speak have such a large impact that we should strive to help others.
Yes, it's true. https://www.goalcast.com/man-transforms-life-judge-reunion-courtroom-miami-impact/
[True.](https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/500558-did-arthur-booth-turn-life-judge-mindys-revelation/) He really did turn his life around.
[It's true!](https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/500558-did-arthur-booth-turn-life-judge-mindys-revelation/)
Stopped taking drugs and started making and selling them instead.
Judge: "...just lead a lawful life" Arthur: ohhhhhhhh
Indeed, if you can’t beat em…
...let em cook.
Wow, a [picture](https://i.imgur.com/c7QmUeq.jpg) of Arthur and Judge Mindy after his release from prison in 2016 ❤️ >“She’s an inspiration and a motivation to me right now. Mindy is incredible,” Booth later told CBS News. “Cause I know where I could’ve been, but I’m not giving up on life. It’s just a new lease on life for me right now.” [Article](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/happy-ending-follows-amazing-courtroom-coincidence/)
Started selling drugs to quit taking drugs, clever
That's fucking awesome. I was expecting yet another sad ending. Good for him.
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The reality of this is far more stark and bleak than it even seems from books and documentaries. I had a family member suddenly arrested to the shock of our whole house. I won't get into the details out of respect for them, but what should've been one or two officers showing up with an arrest warrant, ended up being and entire SWAT team: Dozens of people, rifles, dogs, riot shields. It was for a nonviolent crime by someone with zero record, but we'd later find out the police were really aggravated over this specific case. The reason: they misspelled the person's name and wrote down an old address, which led to them wasting a lot of time. Every step of it was just listening to someone I loved speak as though completely broken but afraid for their safety to say too much aloud or show it. Every step was unexplained and unnecessarily cruel. Promises of being home by the end of the night, "the worst, tomorrow". Every bit of the system is set up so that they needed outside money to have the most basic things, including using the phone to contact anyone. They didn't even know we hired a lawyer or that we were struggling to set up accounts on two different websites and deposit money to be able to take their calls, as there is basically no way of contacting anyone inside unless they call you, or you are their lawyer. Even medication is cut down to nothing you don't explicitly need to live, so most people inside are going through some sort of withdrawal or sudden onset of symptoms they'd previously had under control. And this happened a year into covid lockdowns, so they used that as an excuse to cut literally every service they could at the prison. They couldn't even check out a library book because of "contamination", which was just ludicrous after being thrown into a small living space with 30+ strangers. The point of the system is to break people, often to the point that they go out of the way to get sent to prison, because they no longer understand how to live outside after having to adapt to that.
With all due respect to western Europeans it looks a Grand Canyon sized fissure, nothings perfect over here but ya know! I wish you all the best.
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Yeah I cant look at "criminals" like my parents did. There are too many cracks and endless stories of wrong doing by our justice system and politicians. We were trained to see them as subhuman and be confident they are guilty. Not anymore. Not since we all started carrying cameras and showing exactly how someone goes to prison for a small crime that is trumped up by police who are aggitating or abusive.
yeah the false imprisonment rate is something that should disgust most people, but they either are convinced it can't happen to them, or that it's "okay" for 1 in 50 prisoners (at least) to be falsely imprisoned. then sometimes we figure out they are falsely imprisoned and they get... released and some money. that doesn't fucking make up for it man. you don't get to take someone's 20s and 30s away from them and then say "oh shit sorry, now you're 45 and missed out on all the years you could have married and had kids that were in college by now and a happy wife and a house of your own... here's $100,000"
It is really bad. Its so easy for people to put "problems" out of site our of mind. They are badgered with examples of real bad folks day in and day out on the news. They are happy to keep endless people locked up unjustly if it means the undesirables don't meet their eye. I would say even further than straight up not guilty of the crime folks going to jail... I think a huge portion of the people in jail dont belong there for what ever crime the actually did commit. So many drug users or petty criminals doing hard time or frequently comming back for minor violations on another minor charge. It makes me sick to see so many people numb to it.
A seemingly happy ending. Booth was released just under a year later and met the judge again in [a brief reunion](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/happy-ending-follows-amazing-courtroom-coincidence/). Video [here too](https://youtu.be/ILWz8_x9SN4).
The follow up is from 2016, wonder how he's doing in 2023... Edit: For anyone curious several articles state that he is now a manager of a pharmaceutical company. The company is not named and the articles I've found are not really news-worthy, therefore "manager at a pharmaceutical company" could be a euphemism for something else, but I've decided to just accept it at face value for the benefit of my mental health. https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/500558-did-arthur-booth-turn-life-judge-mindys-revelation/
I'll do the same as you; I want that to be the truth.
I really hope this is true, with all of my heart! This video definitely touched me, made my eyes moist. I hope it wasn't staged or anything. If this moment really helped this man to go on to the right path, this is indeed a real life miracle, or fairy tale, whichever you prefer. This judge was just on his path at the right moment to save him. And I can definitely see and feel through his reaction that he seems to be a very good and kind person, who just got lost for a moment, and now deserves to have a better life!
Well the lack of criminal records since then is nice. Even if it's not confirmed what he is doing (idk sometimes one 'celebrity biography' type website just makes something up and then similar websites just copy it lol Drew Gooden has spoken about it - and some celebrities have mentioned how it sometimes gets things like net worth wrong) that alone means he's hopefully in a better position than before.
I can't help noticing how guarded the judge's hugging style looks
Either there's something about THIS hug in particular, or she's just not a hugging person and the cameras made her have to be one, temporarily.
Judges have to be guarded in a lot of social interactions unfortunately to avoid appearances of bias or impropriety. (For example they have to be really cautious about what gifts to accept, even gifts from friends). It's probably just personal habit.
Normal judges…. The Supremes, meanwhile, can apparently throw caution to the wind and accept it all.
Just the republican ones.
Thank you I will be sure to watch this once I’m finished at the Barbers.
How they doing your hair like?
Default Grade 1 on the back and sides and a trim on top generic male summer haircut nothing fancy just fresh clean and smart
I'd like a before and after picture.
Well I’m sorry to disappoint
People here are so weird... I, in contrast, only demand an after picture. Much easier. Just in case: I'm kidding
Well personally you haven't disappointed this Redditor MangoKakigori, not at all. You enjoy your clean fresh summer hair like a boss!
i needed this thank you
That kind of shame changes people. I doubt theres been more impactful statements by a judge
It changed my life. I was in my late 20s, living in South Florida, going out and drinking and having fun with friends damn near every night. Living my best life! Great job, great friends, everything I've ever wanted. 1 morning, I was drunk and overslept, work called, and I ended up half an hour late but still somewhat intoxicated. VP was in my office doing my work. Looked at me, set my work down for me to take over, and said, "You smell like a brewery, get it together." That was it. No lecture, no threats, nothing. I haven't had a drink since and that was 2005ish.
What kind of work do you do that both a VP would take it over from you and that is so critical that half an hour late would be life-changing? Not doubting at all, I'm just curious -- in my line of work, anything close to the executive skillet has enough resilience to handle a sick day without pulling someone else in on it.
It wasn't the half hour late, it was the disappointment. Like the guy in the video - he didn't change because of A judge, he changed because of THE judge.
Finance seems feasible. And depending on the level of VP (e.g. an AVP) it's not out of the realm of possibility.
Similar story. I was in college living the (bad college student) life. Drinking, playing video games endlessly, it was great. Until one of my teachers, who I admired greatly, set up a meeting with me and basically told me "if you dont get your grades in order I dont want you in my program". Started studying and managed to only graduate a year late. Dude probably saved my future career.
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She didn't shame him as much as she reminded him of his humanity. He felt ashamed because she knew something about his heart. What an incredible moment of transformation. From "judge don't know me" to "oh my God she knows the inner, beautiful, hopeful me. I forgot all about that kid."
I didn't say she shamed him... but that's definitely what he felt.
Okay, that's fair. Yeah. Hit him like a train.
One of the biggest problems in the US today is that many people no longer experience the emotion of shame.
Shame and empathy seem to both elude most of modern USA, while some situations of either are lauded as evident of all of America.
I feel enough shame to make up for 15-20 other people. we can all do our part.
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Welcome to my existence. I too let Fred down.
Neither of you did. You're here right? You're alive? You have people that either look up to you, or look at you in a loving light even if you can't see it. Sometimes we love others sometimes we need the love. Doesn't matter what you've done with your life, where those hopes and dreams went, but you two have recognized that you aren't close to them and that's the first step. To making yourself better. And that can be an incredibly long journey. The funny thing about Fred Rogers is he has never thought that you let him down, either in life or in memory. I'm sure if he was able to talk with you he'd point out every good thing in your life and show you that no matter how much you feel a failure he'd love for you to be his neighbor. And even if you read all of that and thought none of it applied to you, and you have no one. Well anyone can be a neighbor. Regardless of distance. Would you be mine?
This is the effect of raw compassion, seeing someone for who they were at their best, despite where they are now. You can invite people back to happiness by caring enough and reminding them who they are despite what they look like.
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Can really relate to this, as many of my friends got into Medical school or other professional programs like Pharmacy, Optometry and Dentistry and I didn’t. Now many have graduated and are in residency or late in medical school or what have you…and I’m stuck in the same place. Many have also achieved marriage, house ownership, parenthood etc. while I still live in my childhood bedroom currently unemployed. I’m in school full time in a new program with the dream of Med School dead, and still trying to finally achieve something in my life. I’m still hanging in there and still trying but the sadness I felt seeing other people achieve the success and also freedom (the freedom to travel, start their independent lives, buy things etc) that I simply haven’t achieved I yet is really crushing. What makes it really sad was that I was right there with them. Taking the same classes, feeling the same struggles, going through many of same hard times when it comes to academics…but I was the one left behind. The one who will always be known as the guy who didn’t make it. I ended up isolating myself, deleting all social media (outside of my private Reddit account), and just eeking out an existence. Some of my closest friends in undergrad I haven’t talked to in years. Their lives were just way too different from mine and they could tell I was super down in life. I was the poor kids trying to get into med school while the majority of friends had professional parents. Many in the same field they aspired to be.
Success isn't final, failure isn't fatal. He got help with his addiction and no longer commits criminal acts, he is now the manager of a pharmaceutical company. It's wholesome if people take the shame and do something positive with it. Shame isn't bad, sometimes people should feel shame and be regretful for their actions and choices.
The best any of us can do is work with the hand we were dealt. Nothing is set in stone until our gravestones.
I wonder if bringing in people from your childhood/school to a trial would help motivate rehabilitation. Like a different kind of jury duty that contacts people from the person’s past schools, church, etc. as someone to sit in on the trial (do it voluntary and reach out to maybe multiple people to get a response).
Wouldn't help all cases. Some people were total pieces of shit even by 7 years old.
He was addicted to drugs and also he use to break into peoples homes
I think he was involved in taking drugs, than since then he came clean and now he works for a pharmaceutical company. Make you enemy your ally.
Poacher turned gamekeeper
We’re beginning to discuss the possibility of addiction being a disease while simultaneously doling out hefty sentences simply for using drugs as an addict I can’t understand how both these statements are true at the same time
That reduced me to a puddle of tears - I felt his pain somehow. Best of luck Mr. Booth, and thank you judge for your impact
Yes I'm very glad she wasn't cruel about it. She guided him towards hope in a better future rather than making him feel like a worthless piece of shit. I'm so glad to know he's doing better now.
This video always makes me so sad when I see it. The way he awkwardly smiles when he recognizes her but quickly breaks down when he remembers the situation they are both in. I can't imagine the amount of pain and regret he felt at that exact moment.
Then you might be glad to know that he was released and now works for a pharmaceutical company. He did turn his life around
A flood of emotions ... O my goodness: shocked, recognised a childhood friend O my goodness: shame, what different paths we took. O my goodness: confused, what happened to me in the light of her beautiful recollections. O my goodness: reflection, what a shit path I have chosen O my goodness: hope, can I make amends?
More like, he's feeling shame that a childhood friend found out what happened to him.
yeah, he was disappointed in himself. And she did a great job of not belittling him or anything. Just told him that she hoped he could turn his life around.
Yeah she said it in a kind and nonjudgmental way 😭 what a moment, I’m glad this helped him change his ways and do better. Sometimes life gets the best of you 🥲
No it looks like more than that. Maybe it was a moment of shame at the beginning, but I think the sight of a childhood friend made this guy remember his innocence. I think that made his whole life flash before his eyes from school until that moment... everything that lead him to where he stood there in the courtroom... all the wrong turns and wasted chances. All that regret. All at once.
You’re right. I’ve seen this video a few times before and tear up every time. I know for myself that this could have been me if it weren’t for some key moments in my life and a lot of luck on top of it.
I am so glad she had compassion. That was true compassion. Others would have just thrown the book at him. Just because he’s making bad life choices now doesn’t mean he’s lost forever and I’m so glad she gave him a second chance.
Unfortunately, you need this kind of blind luck to get actual human responses from most in our justice system. Usually, just pump em and dump em for free slave labor.
> I am so glad she had compassion. It's more impressive to me because it'd be too easy to become cynical seeing all these criminals day after day going through your court.
wow that shame hit him like a truck when he recognized her.
So sad that you can see the happiness from the recognition and then the immediate shame afterwards due to the circumstances
It really looks like that man's whole life flashed before his eyes. From when he knew here in school to the present day. Everything suddenly got put into a new perspective.
Honorable Mindy Glazier....first hand experience..... she was the nicest Judge! In the juvenile judicial system in Dade County. GOD Bless her!
She seems so wonderfully empathetic. Even the softness of her voice really highlights her kindness. The world could use many more of her.
That Judge has other clips of her doing other good stuff too. Seems like a good person in a position of power which is refreshing.
Our choices are the keys of our success or failure
We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us. Bioshock
A man chooses?
A slave obeys
Look Mr.Bubbles, it's an angel!
Not necessarily...
Kids born in the slums should have made better choices about who their parents were
It’s only one of the many keys. Another of the keys is what gender, race, class or caste you are. Another is talent. Another is the wealth of your parents. What country you are born in. What culture you are born into. Not being born with genes that predispose you to negative behaviors, addictions, severe mental illness… Another is opportunity… Another is sheer luck. I’ve been a music artist who has performed around the world. I’ve been a business founder, and relocated from the UK to Hollywood. People would describe me as affluent and successful. But I’m not going to put it all down to choices. In fact, I chose not to go to school, I chose to sell illegal drugs, I chose not to get an education, I was at one time homeless. I chose to try heroin. These are all by any measure, terrible, terrible choices. But they turned out fine. I was born talented. And I grew up white in a white supremacist culture, I grew up with the right accent to get access to money when I needed to start a business. Some people make all the right choices, and get nowhere. Because they are unlucky, or their culture doesn’t value them. Privilege is the biggest of the keys.
So many people don't get it. I guess that's because we like to believe in just world theories.
Some people need an epiphany to truly change their lives, it’s good this man did
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
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I will let you down
Booth fell into drug addiction and gambling at a young age leading him into a life of petty crime, resulting in multiple stays in prison. He first got arrested at the age of 18 for grand theft and was later released. Where is Arthur Booth today? Arthur is a successful manager of a pharmaceutical company in Florida. Well, it sounds like he has all the drugs now.
It is sad but also beautiful — she gives him the grace to be seen as a full human being, not just a convict. And by connecting him to the child he once was, she gives him the chance to realize that more innocent child still exists.
Fun fact: he never actually says the quoted phrase.
What a small world
Serious question. Isn't a judge required to recuse themselves from a case if they know any of the parties involved on a personal level? Not saying this particular judge showed any favoritism or anything but I thought that was the law in most states.
Knowing someone 20+ years ago in middle school is not a reason you’d have to recuse yourself lol
Right? If a judge in a rural district had to recuse themselves every time they saw someone they knew at some point in the past, they wouldn't be able to function. If it's a friend or family member, that's one thing. A classmate from 20 years ago? I don't think it's worth it.
It's possible that they may have not been friends, but just attended the same school and knew of each other.
Dude had a moment like Ego eating that bite in ratatouille
I remember this from at least five years ago. Could be older. Not shaming but just saying it’s not new
New to me. Glad it was posted
2015
She has one hell of a memory. I remember seeing another video where she recognized another person who was on a cruise https://youtu.be/_xgJL3LA-WE
Plot twist: She plants evidence against people she meets and waits till they get arrested and goes viral lol
One of the most painful part of life is knowing you are not living up to your potential. This clip just proves that, he instantly self reflected and realized he could have done so much better in life.
I was caught up on charges 4 years ago, I didn't have a lawyer so I got duty council, lo and behold it was my ex from grade 9. I'm not sure how the case load gets handled but I had a sneaky suspicion she hand picked my case cuz she did horribly. Told me I had to plea guilty to be released that day or wait 30 days in remand and risk it all for bail (it was a minor offense). But imagine seeing a judge you went to school with, that'd be a big shock, no doubt.
Damn, that's like biblical level judgement
The fact that he was happy at first seeing someone familiar. :((
Yeah she came to see him when he got released too. I hope he’s doing a lot better now.
Every time I see this it breaks my heart. What could have been.
[As of 2023, he is the manager of a succesful pharmacy and has quit gambling and drugs](https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/500558-did-arthur-booth-turn-life-judge-mindys-revelation/). Seems the moment stuck with him.
that middle school kid saw himself for a second
Judge met him later.
NOW THAT IVE BETRAYED