<p>A friend in need is a friend indeed!<br /><br /></p>.<p>This old saying has come true in the case of two middle school friends in the US -- a woman judge and a man who served nearly 10 months in a Miami jail for burglary.<br /><br />When Miami-Dade County Judge Mindy Glazer and her school friend Arthur Booth met decades later in June last year, they were on opposite sides of a courtroom in Miami, Florida.<br /><br />Glazer was presiding over a bond hearing for 49-year-old Arthur Booth after he was arrested for burglary.<br /><br />When he stood before her, the judge and defendant realised they were once classmates in middle school.<br /><br />"Mr. Booth, I have a question for you," said Glazer.<br /><br />"Yes ma'am," answered Booth.<br /><br />"Did you go to Nautilus for middle school?" she asked.<br /><br />"Oh my goodness," answered Booth as he broke down in tears. Video of the heartrending 'reunion' also went viral.<br /><br />During the court hearing, Glazer had said that "he was the nicest kid in middle school" and lamented the choices that led him to her courtroom.<br /><br />"I used to play football with him, all the kids, and look what has happened," Glazer said, "I'm so sorry to see this."<br /><br />The two met again under much different circumstances this week, as Booth was released from a jail on a special court programme after serving nearly 10 months behind bars.<br /><br />Judge Glazer was waiting for Booth as he left jail and greeted him with a hug, but also stern words.<br /><br />"You're going to take care of your family, get a job, and stay clean," Glazer told Booth. "You're going to do something good for someone else."<br /><br />"This is a group effort to see you succeed. Don't let us down," she was quoted as saying by NBC Miami.<br /><br />Booth said he wants to make his former classmate and his family proud.<br /><br />"She's an inspiration and motivation to me right now, just seeing Mindy is incredible," Booth said.<br /><br />"Because I know where I could've been, but I'm not giving up on life, it's just a new leaf on life for me right now," Booth said.</p>
<p>A friend in need is a friend indeed!<br /><br /></p>.<p>This old saying has come true in the case of two middle school friends in the US -- a woman judge and a man who served nearly 10 months in a Miami jail for burglary.<br /><br />When Miami-Dade County Judge Mindy Glazer and her school friend Arthur Booth met decades later in June last year, they were on opposite sides of a courtroom in Miami, Florida.<br /><br />Glazer was presiding over a bond hearing for 49-year-old Arthur Booth after he was arrested for burglary.<br /><br />When he stood before her, the judge and defendant realised they were once classmates in middle school.<br /><br />"Mr. Booth, I have a question for you," said Glazer.<br /><br />"Yes ma'am," answered Booth.<br /><br />"Did you go to Nautilus for middle school?" she asked.<br /><br />"Oh my goodness," answered Booth as he broke down in tears. Video of the heartrending 'reunion' also went viral.<br /><br />During the court hearing, Glazer had said that "he was the nicest kid in middle school" and lamented the choices that led him to her courtroom.<br /><br />"I used to play football with him, all the kids, and look what has happened," Glazer said, "I'm so sorry to see this."<br /><br />The two met again under much different circumstances this week, as Booth was released from a jail on a special court programme after serving nearly 10 months behind bars.<br /><br />Judge Glazer was waiting for Booth as he left jail and greeted him with a hug, but also stern words.<br /><br />"You're going to take care of your family, get a job, and stay clean," Glazer told Booth. "You're going to do something good for someone else."<br /><br />"This is a group effort to see you succeed. Don't let us down," she was quoted as saying by NBC Miami.<br /><br />Booth said he wants to make his former classmate and his family proud.<br /><br />"She's an inspiration and motivation to me right now, just seeing Mindy is incredible," Booth said.<br /><br />"Because I know where I could've been, but I'm not giving up on life, it's just a new leaf on life for me right now," Booth said.</p>