Brown Claims Judge was Biased in his Domestic Violence Case LOS ANGELES (AP) Football great Jim Brown claims the female judge who presided over his domestic violence trial is biased against men, and he says he will refuse to collect trash as a form of community service. A jury found Brown guilty of vandalism Sept. 10 for smashing his wife's car with a shovel during an argument. He was acquitted of charges that he had threatened his 25-year-old wife, Monique. Superior Court Judge Dale Fischer sentenced Brown to three years' probation and ordered him to pay $1,700 in fines. He also was ordered to attend a domestic violence counseling program and to complete 400 hours of community service. Brown was to appear in court today to prove he had enrolled in the counseling and community service programs. Brown, 63, said Wednesday he filed a motion alleging Fischer is against men in general and black males in particular. The motion seeks to have her retroactively removed from his case and his sentence nullified. During his sentencing earlier this month, Brown objected to any domestic violence conditions because he was acquitted of the threat charge. ’I am not going to clean trash on the freeway,'' Brown said Wednesday. ’They can take my (driver's) license. I am not going to get on my knees, and if they give me the maximum sentence, I will serve it like a man.'' In his motion, Brown claimed that Fischer is a leader of the American Inns of Court, a professional legal organization founded in Utah in 1980 that he said is a ’radical and extremist group'' opposed to minority men. Brown was prosecuted for making a threat against his wife even though she recanted her accusations to police that he had threatened to snap her neck. She testified that she made her initial remarks following a June 15 fight at the couple's Hollywood Hills home to get attention because she believed her husband was having an affair.

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