A memo, dated Dec. 8, 1999, from Sgt. Neal Goodman to Wilhelm detailed the incident which started in Judge Ted Blanton’s courtroom.

Blanton was in a judge’s meeting this morning and not available for comment.

After the incident with the juvenile, Wilhelm instructed all his baliffs to ask judges to put any unusual instructions in writing.

Word about the dog run incident began circulating in the courthouse after a more recent case in which Blanton stopped a construction crew from working and had them sit in a jury box until he finished a trial.

Wilhelm acknowledged that baliffs didn’t get instructions in writing before detaining the construction workers. Wilhelm said they should have and will in the future.

In the Dec. 8 incident, Sgt. Goodman was called to the courtroom about 11 a.m. to assist Bailiff Sam Henline “with an out of control juvenile,” according to the memo.

Henline requested hand and leg restraints for the juvenile who “was creating an extreme disturbance in the courtroom.”

The memo goes on to say Blanton had just ordered two juvenile sisters to detention. Wilhelm said the girls’ parents were present and later agreed with all the steps the deputies took.

One of the sisters shouted obscenities at Blanton while waiting to be taken to the detention center.

Wilhelm said deputies wait from two to five hours for the juvenile transport officers to arrive. And since the girls were minors, they could not be detained with adult inmates in the nearby county Detention Center.

According to Goodman’s memo, “Because of the continued profane outbursts from juvenile #1, Judge Blanton asked if there was a place, other than the jail, that she could be taken where she would not be disruptive to others…I told Judge Blanton that if she continued to shout obscenities at that volume, the only place that I was aware of where she would not be offensive to others was our K-9 holding area. He said ‘Fine!’ ”

But Goodman and Henline first put the sisters in holding cells between two courtrooms. Neal’s memo indicates the same sister continued cursing and shouting.

“Her shouting and banging on the cell door was being heard in both courtroom #1 and #2. I finally went to the holding area and told her that if she did not be quiet that I would place her in the K-9 holding area. Her reply was ‘Go for it big boy!’ ”

Goodman and Deputy Carmon Williams then took the girl to the K-9 holding area.

On Monday, Wilhelm described the holding area as a 10 foot-by-10 foot open area with a 6-foot-tall fence. The girl was there for about 15 minutes.

“The entire time, they monitored her…and the area was just built and hadn’t been used by one of the canines yet … It still hasn’t been used yet,” Wilhelm said.

Goodman took the girl back to the holding cell next to her sister, and the girls ate lunch.

After leaving the fenced holding area, the girl “did not shout or utter any obscenities during the remainder of her stay,” the memo said.

The state juvenile transport officers arrived five hours after Blanton sentenced them.