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Like any other well-bred, God-fearing southern boy, Josten Bundy has a sworn duty to defend his girlfriend's honor. So when an ex-boyfriend started talking shit about her last February, Bundy allegedly socked the punk twice in the face, real hard, and then got charged with assault, a local ABC affiliate reported.In July, Bundy found himself at a sentencing hearing in East Texas, where the judge gave him two very un-judge-like options: either marry your girlfriend, or go to jail."Is she worth it?" Judge Randall Rogers asked Bundy during the hearing."I said, 'Well to be honest sir, I was raised with four sisters, and if any man was talking to a woman like that I'd probably do the same thing,'" Bundy told KLTV.Rogers reportedly asked Bundy if he was married to his girlfriend, Elizabeth Jaynes, before telling him, "You know, as part of my probation, you're going to have to marry her… within 30 days."If Bundy refused, the judge told him, he'd have to spend 15 days in a local jail, potentially costing him his job. So the couple decided to say "fuck it" and tie the knot a few weeks later.Bundy and Jaynes are planning to stage a more legit wedding in the future, but for now, they're still bummed out about the weak original: Bundy's father and sisters couldn't make it to the courthouse on such short notice, and Jaynes had always wanted to get married in the spring."It just felt like we weren't going to be able to have the wedding we wanted," Jaynes said. "It was just going to be kind of pieced together. I didn't even have a white dress."A constitutional law expert told KLTV it was totally illegal to force someone to get married in court, but Judge Rogers was apparently not paying attention in law school that day.
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