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Sideline Chatter: Future judge not 'sore' after tackling fleeing courtroom suspect

Call a run play? This perp should have taken a knee.

Gerald Moore _ up on meth charges in Bowie County, Texas _ picked the wrong courtroom to flee, as judge-elect Jeff Fletcher lowered his shoulder and quickly tackled him.

"I thought I'd be sore the next day," Fletcher, who was sitting in the gallery as an observer, told the Texarkana Gazette. "But I was just fine."

Fletcher, who assumes the bench on Jan. 1, was a Baylor punter and DB in the early 1980s.

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