By Mark Gray

• The court has ruled! Judge Joe Brown, who was once one of the most popular TV judges, is now behind bars after being ruled in contempt of court.

  Joe, now a former judge, was sentenced to five days in jail for exploding on another judge during a child support case last year in Tennessee.

  In March 2014, Joe, who had a successful run of his self-titled series on syndicated TV, was acting as a lawyer when he showed up in juvenile court and went berserk when the court clerk said that they had no record of the case he was working on.

  In a recording from the courtroom, Joe scolds the current judge for setting another court date, “I will file a petition for habeas corpus and close this place down like I did before if you make her come back here one more time.”