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A heated exchange between D.C. Superior Court Judge John Bayly Jr. and Public Defender Service attorney Liyah Brown last week ended with Brown in a holding cell -- the first time, Bayly says, he has ever detained a lawyer. Bayly compared Brown's actions in court to "a terrier with a bone." PDS general counsel Julia Leighton says Bayly's order that Brown be taken into custody "was unfounded, ...