Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI) - December 7, 1993
Services for Harold M. Bode, a former Kenosha County circuit judge, will be held Tuesday.
Bode, of Greendale, died Saturday. He was 83.
Bode began practicing law in 1933 after graduating from
Georgetown University and was appointed a Kenosha County circuit judge in 1957.
He previously served as Kenosha County district attorney.
While presiding over a Milwaukee trial in 1968, Bode piqued criticism for demanding that the Sheriff's Department bring coffee to jurors.
Bode held a Sheriff's Department captain in contempt of court twice within a week for not bringing the coffee. He later dismissed the orders of criminal contempt against the captain, but two weeks later, the county board of judges' executive committee asked the County Board to have a coffee machine installed in the jury assembly room.
"The law is what I say it is" Bode had said during the Courthouse coffee controversy. "It isn't what the sheriff says it is or what the Legislature thinks it is, it's what I say it is."
Bode is survived by his wife, Lena; three daughters, Ann E. Gausdan, of Scottsdale, Ariz.; Alice M. Herston, of Anchorage, Alaska; and Joan E. Hansen, of Milwaukee; and three brothers.
Services will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Mark's Catholic Church in Kenosha.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI) - December 7, 1993
Services for Harold M. Bode, a former Kenosha County circuit judge, will be held Tuesday.
Bode, of Greendale, died Saturday. He was 83.
Bode began practicing law in 1933 after graduating from
Georgetown University and was appointed a Kenosha County circuit judge in 1957.
He previously served as Kenosha County district attorney.
While presiding over a Milwaukee trial in 1968, Bode piqued criticism for demanding that the Sheriff's Department bring coffee to jurors.
Bode held a Sheriff's Department captain in contempt of court twice within a week for not bringing the coffee. He later dismissed the orders of criminal contempt against the captain, but two weeks later, the county board of judges' executive committee asked the County Board to have a coffee machine installed in the jury assembly room.
"The law is what I say it is" Bode had said during the Courthouse coffee controversy. "It isn't what the sheriff says it is or what the Legislature thinks it is, it's what I say it is."
Bode is survived by his wife, Lena; three daughters, Ann E. Gausdan, of Scottsdale, Ariz.; Alice M. Herston, of Anchorage, Alaska; and Joan E. Hansen, of Milwaukee; and three brothers.
Services will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Mark's Catholic Church in Kenosha.
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