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Judge John W. Scott Jr. dies after surgery Date published: 4/16/2008 By Emily Battle John W. Scott Jr., Fredericksburg’s Circuit Court judge for the past 12 years, died this afternoon after having surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Scott was the Fredericksburg area’s first black judge. He was a civil rights pioneer from the time he was a teenager and won a federal lawsuit for the right to attend James Monroe High School. Scott is survived by his wife, Alda White, and three sons. Please see tomorrow’s edition of The Free Lance-Star for more on this story. --Emily Battle, The Free Lance-Star
Judge Scott and I crossed paths for the first time in 1985 while he was still in private practice. I had been asked to come into a death penalty case he and another lawyer in his firm had handled. I'll never forget his courage and his conviction about right and wrong. His first words to me were "If you come across anything you think I did wrong don't be afraid to speak up. That man shouldn't suffer the consequences of my errors." John Scott as lawyer and Judge was committed to doing what was right.
A fine, highly principled man!
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