Life as drag queen led judge to revoke bail, says Mobile manslaughter suspect
Posted by Robert McClendon, Staff Reporter
September 10, 2009 8:00 AM
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MOBILE, Ala. -- When John Burton showed up in Mobile County Circuit
Court for a June bail revocation hearing, he did so, he said, with the
understanding that it was a formality, that his bail would be upheld
and he would be free to go.
Perhaps that's why he felt comfortable appearing in court dressed as
Maxi Heights, his drag-queen alter ego.
Judge Roderick Stout did revoke his bail, and Burton, 31, was booked
into Metro Jail -- his former place of work as a corrections officer
-- wearing tight white jeans, a black blouse and a silky black wig
with burgundy highlights.