Excerpted from the Manhattan Spectrum:

Timmy Wormwicker, an observer of the Bernie Madoff sentencing proceedings, spoke of the strange behavior by Madoff attorney Claxton J. Smuckers.

“Listen, I know he’s a public defender, probably a year out of law school, but that was inappropriate.  Even for a {redacted} like Bernie Madoff.”

“I don’t even think the judge was done speaking by the time he left the courtroom.”

“It was like he was shot out of a cannon.”