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scratched his head and when we went out of there, he was still wondering where the bear sat in the buckwheat!” Wilson related, sending a ripple of appreciative chuckles around the crowded courtroom. James W. Fletcher, dean of the Rappahannock Bar Association and a friend of Billy Moffett’s since they were pre-schoolers, cited two things that stood out about the former judge: “He was fair and he was a gentleman...Billy may have appeared gruff but his heart really bled for the people who appeared before him.”
According to Fletcher, the Moffett family has always had a reputation for fairness and honesty. As an example, he related a story from his early days as a lawyer when Billy's father was commonwealth’s attorney and his uncle had been selected for jury panel on a case for which Fletcher was defense attorney. “I was perplexed,” Fletcher recalled, noting that he couldn’t decide whether to strike Billy’s uncle from jury membership and so asked his
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