anyone read the news article about the judge who sent everyone in court to jail for a week

[zanejohnson]

glad this deuche got removed from his position.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US...1/28/judge.cell.phone/

 

[Slick5150]

Geez. I'm all for enforcing a "turn your ringer" off policy in certain places, but that's just a major abuse of power. The panel did the right thing.

 

[alkemyst]

Someone should have fessed up to the judge. It's his courtroom.

 

[maxster]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[OdiN]

Lawsuit. Bunch of them. False imprisonment...etc.

I'm not a huge proponent of suing people, but this is just wrong.

 

[Jawo]

Gee...talk about a judge abusing his power!

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
Someone should have fessed up to the judge. It's his courtroom.

Agreed

 

[DangerAardvark]

He should have just had the bailiff tie the phone to a lamp post and shoot it 3 times.

 

[FoBoT]

he should have just thrown the brick at them

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Lawsuit. Bunch of them. False imprisonment...etc.

I'm not a huge proponent of suing people, but this is just wrong.

damn right. i would.

 

[Squisher]

I don't see where it says they were in jail for a week.

After all the defendants denied having the phone or knowing who it belonged to, Restaino sent 46 people to jail. Fourteen who were unable to make bail were handcuffed and jailed for several hours.

btw-it was probably the bailiff's phone.

 

[zanejohnson]

Originally posted by: Squisher
I don't see where it says they were in jail for a week.

After all the defendants denied having the phone or knowing who it belonged to, Restaino sent 46 people to jail. Fourteen who were unable to make bail were handcuffed and jailed for several hours.

btw-it was probably the bailiff's phone.

he originally sentenced everyone to a week in jail.... they later released them all after a few hours...


the article changed since i read it the first time.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Squisher
I don't see where it says they were in jail for a week.

After all the defendants denied having the phone or knowing who it belonged to, Restaino sent 46 people to jail. Fourteen who were unable to make bail were handcuffed and jailed for several hours.

btw-it was probably the bailiff's phone.

yeap he released them in a few hours. AFTER the news people started asking about it.


just fuckign amazing. that is one judge that should nto be on the bench.

 

[jdoggg12]

The dumbass shouldve just had everyone immediately line up their phones in front of them and have the bailif check the time of the last call.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: jdoggg12
The dumbass shouldve just had everyone immediately line up their phones in front of them and have the bailif check the time of the last call.

i don't think he could do that either.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

While this is a massive abuse of power, and he was being an idiot, at the same time, he probably just snapped. Kind of hard to be rational when your brain is going haywire.

 

[MedicBob]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: jdoggg12
The dumbass shouldve just had everyone immediately line up their phones in front of them and have the bailif check the time of the last call.

i don't think he could do that either.

His courtroom.

He went over the top, but I got a good laugh at it.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: MedicBob

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: jdoggg12
The dumbass shouldve just had everyone immediately line up their phones in front of them and have the bailif check the time of the last call.

i don't think he could do that either.

His courtroom.

He went over the top, but I got a good laugh at it.

that does not matter. just because you are in his courtroom does not mean you give up rights.

he can't just search you call records. seems like that would be a illegal search.

 

[jdoggg12]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: MedicBob

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: jdoggg12
The dumbass shouldve just had everyone immediately line up their phones in front of them and have the bailif check the time of the last call.

i don't think he could do that either.

His courtroom.

He went over the top, but I got a good laugh at it.

that does not matter. just because you are in his courtroom does not mean you give up rights.

he can't just search you call records. seems like that would be a illegal search.

Its a law that they must be silenced/off while in the room. So if one went off, it's a broken law, all persons are subject to a reasonable search, i think.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: jdoggg12

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: MedicBob

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: jdoggg12
The dumbass shouldve just had everyone immediately line up their phones in front of them and have the bailif check the time of the last call.

i don't think he could do that either.

His courtroom.

He went over the top, but I got a good laugh at it.

that does not matter. just because you are in his courtroom does not mean you give up rights.

he can't just search you call records. seems like that would be a illegal search.

Its a law that they must be silenced/off while in the room. So if one went off, it's a broken law, all persons are subject to a reasonable search, i think.

sure. see if htey have a cell phone and if it is on. going through the call history is the problem.

 

[SuperFreaky]

Even if there was a call at the correct time, you wouldn't know if that phone was on mute and the real phone was just hidden in someone's ass?

 

[PokerGuy]

Funny thing is, he admitted that it was basically "stressors in his personal life" that led him to take such an action. Clearly, he was not thinking rationally, there's absolutely no way he would be able to get away with such an action.....

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
While this is a massive abuse of power, and he was being an idiot, at the same time, he probably just snapped. Kind of hard to be rational when your brain is going haywire.

Kind of hard to not be a murderer when you're stabbing a guy in the throat.