Apparently, after slipping out of Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday, leaving security guards cursing at their screens and the Astors quaking in their Town Car, Ronald Tackman — the career criminal whose curiously old-fashioned vitae includes robbing stores while wearing a plastic nose and escaping a prison van with a fake gun he carved out of soap — coolly took the subway to his mom's house in Queens, changed out of his three-piece suit, and went on his way.

He stayed for 10 minutes," the mom, Gene Devine, told The Post. "I thought he was discharged. He was all dressed up."

After his brief visit, he said, "Ma, I'm leaving," and casually walked out.

No word on whether he added, "Though the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools. I got nothing, Ma, to live up to."

Jailbreak a piece of cake [NYP]
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