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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe Washington Post<\/a> reports about the night that District Court Judge Lou Olivera, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, spent the night in a jail cell. He had just sentenced 20-year Army veteran, Joseph Serna, to 24-hours in the local lock up for lying about a court-monitored urinalysis test;<\/p>\n Serna has fought to stay sober, appearing before Olivera 25 times to have his progress reviewed. He confessed to Olivera that he lied about a recent urine test last week, according to WRAL.<\/p>\n In response, Olivera sentenced Serna to one day in jail.<\/p>\n The judge drove Serna to the jail in a neighboring county.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n From the Fayetteville Observer<\/a>;<\/p>\n Olivera had hoped to have Serna serve his time in a holding cell at the Fayetteville Police Department, but Chief Harold Medlock told the judge the cell is now used for storage.<\/p>\n “But I’m friends with the chief of police in Lumberton and called him, and he said he would call the Sheriff’s Office and they were willing to do it,” Medlock says.<\/p>\n Serna reported for his punishment, where he was met by the judge.<\/p>\n “When Joe first came to turn himself in, he was trembling,” says Olivera, a veteran, too, who served in the Gulf War. “I decided that I’d spend the night serving with him.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And that’s what happened – the judge spent Serna’s night in jail with him;<\/p>\n Mostly, from five in the afternoon on April 13 until 6:30 a.m. the next day, the judge and the veteran talked about their respective military service, Serna’s post-traumatic stress disorder from three tours of duty in Afghanistan and how the inmate could turn around his downward spiral that had resulted in a driving-while-impaired charge and other serious traffic offenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n