In a case that seems to have gotten way, cosmically, out of hand, a high-powered California lawyer has landed in Orem to defend a great-grandmother who got her nose bloodied in a dust up with a cop over not watering her lawn.

Gloria Allred, with a special dispensation to practice law in Utah, is going to aid in the defense of Betty Perry when she goes before a four-person jury on charges of interfering with an arrest and violating a zoning ordinance last summer.

When Perry refused to give the police officer her name for the ticket for brown grass, she claims she was roughed up, handcuffed and hauled off to pokey. (He must have left his taser at the station.)

The cop later was cleared of all wrongdoing and Perry wants justice.

Why not do this up right? Can't we get a judicial expert, say Judge Judy or Joe Brown, to parachute in (literally) to preside over this mess?

Allred already passed any reality TV audition when she called a press conference last fall to hold up rusty handcuffs and call Orem "the laughing stock of our country." She unwittingly hurt her own credibility since everyone knows Provo holds that title.