Courtroom 101: things defendants shouldn't do

Had to share this, I thought the judge was being rather nice until the last few seconds when his incredulity took over and he sent numbnuts with the Rick Ross bling to County for a month. Stupid, high, or both? Article first, video at the bottom.

Giggling woman flips judge the bird, judge not amused.

I don’t understand why he had a problem with “adios”.

Disrespectful last straw. Up that point.

There are some great comments in response to this report… the one by Armymedic is my favorite!

@Armymedic_4u - Amazingly, she stopped laughing at the same time I started.

@B - Good for the judge! I’m tired of this generation of MTV-raised Paris Hilton wanna be morons.

@Unhappy- what do you expect? Young ladies now idolize these trashy, big mouthed STUPID women on the reality shows!

It’s disrespectful to say “farewell” to a judge in court?

I hope she’s high, because if that’s her normal way of acting…Jesus.

Sometimes it’s the plaintiff that acts poorly.

I know of one case where my husband was called as a witness, and things weren’t going well for the plaintiff, (a known vexation litigant) so he just left. Believe the transcript ended with “Let the record show that Mr. C. has left the courtroom and has gotten into his car and has now left the parking lot. Plaintiff’s claim is denied.”

Wow, at the very end after flipping him off and walking away, he has to call her back three times. Then she comes back with her arms crossed and doing a slight bounce of pure contempt. She definitely deserved the jail time.

This is a woman who is going to have a lot of problems in life and, of course, blame everything on everyone else.

I watched the video. She was totally high.

Talk about lunchbag letdown, they couldn’t have shown a few more seconds of tape, to see the boneheads reaction? That was the payoff I was waiting to see.

Yeah! What’s next, 30 days in the hole for a polite “smell ya later, yer honor”?

SHE was out of order? HE was out of order! That whole COURTROOM was out of order! ATTICA! ATTICA!

I can’t believe “smell ya later” actually replaced “goodbye”.

Seriously, what is disrespectful about saying good-bye to the judge after he says “bye-bye” to you?

She was obviously not saying it with respect.

Smell ya later, your honor. Smell ya later forever.

I don’t think it was just the adios that pissed the judge off. Her entire disrespectful attitude was what he took issue with. She was up there giggling like a fool, playing with her damn hair. What a clueless idiot.

You might go so far as to say that she was saying it with contempt.

She was laughing at his accent and she said “adios” as a further insult to it. She was basically mocking the entire thing.

There could have been several things on the judges mind regarding ‘Adios’, but I think it was mainly the indication that she didn’t care that she had been charged with crime or required to post $5000 for her freedom. And since he didn’t get his point across with another 5 grand tacked on it’s no surprise he held her in contempt. Now I don’t like that kind of shit from either one of them, but that’s the way judges are, and she’s just flat out stupid.

Back when I lived in Austin, I was called as a witness in a traffic accident. I’m sitting there watching the proceedings while waiting for the case, and a case is called for a red light violation. Defendant is a student at U.T. He argues against the ticket, basically saying that the cop had no business being there watching the intersection. Needless to say, the judge finds him guilty. He imposes the fine and the smartass student says “Fucking kangaroo court”.

Bang! Gavel comes down, contempt of court. Judge fines him on the spot, kid whines about how he can’t afford it. Judge allows him to work the fine off by going to each and every person in the room and apologizing to them for offending the peace and dignity of the court. Once the kid got going, I noticed the judge call the bailiff over and whisper to him. Bailiff grins and goes out. A few minutes later, the courtroom starts to fill up with people.

Yep. The bailiff was on a round-up mission. And apparently when he told them the story, a bunch of people came in, got apologized to, left and came back a while later and got apologized to a second time. Or more. Kid was still making the rounds after my case was called and I had testified. Of course, I stepped out, waited a while, came back in and got a second apology. :smiley: