Sue Carlton: Showing good judgment, judge owns up to mistake
There's this saying: Sometimes it's not what you do, it's what
you do after.  Okay, sometimes it's what you do, too. What
Hillsborough Circuit Judge Tracy Sheehan did, she will tell you,
was make the "horrible decision" to drive after she'd had drinks
with a favorite cousin in Ybor City last weekend.  This got her
arrested and booked like anyone else, got her a night in a cold
cell in the county jail, got her mug shot splashed across the
news.  Here is what she did after: "I'm mortified at my choice,"
she told the reporters whom she did not turn away when they came
knocking. This was not a mistake, she said, "not like I wore I
blue socks with my black pants. This was a colossal lack of
judgment."  Here is what the judge did not do: She did not throw
a Reese Witherspoon-style, do-you-know-who-I-am hissy fit with
police. She did not invoke her position or ask for any special
treatment.  "I wish they were all as cooperative," Hillsborough
County sheri