Posted on 11/20/2004 10:02:03 AM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak
A ringing cell phone landed a 17-year-old Patchogue girl facing drug charges in a jail cell this week after an angry district court judge sentenced her to 21 days for contempt.
Mariela Acevedo of 21 Hammond St. incurred the wrath of District Court Judge Salvatore Alamia on Tuesday. As she awaited her hearing, an electronic device went off in Alamia's Central Islip courtroom and he warned everyone to shut off all cell phones and pagers or face contempt charges.
"If you don't know how to shut it off, go outside and introduce it to the heel of your shoe, he said according to a transcript.
When Acevedo's phone subsequently sounded, Alamia called the teenager forward and asked, "Did you think I was playing with you?"
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
No. It's his courtroom. The participants in the room were warned. Too many "jerks" don't pay attention to rules, regulations and requests. These stupid phones ring in Church and at meetings. When I condust a meeting or a seminar, I announce that there will be NO CELL PHONE ACTIVITY in my meeting.
As millions of illegals pour into our country, while our leaders and law enforcement stand shoulder to shoulder ignoring this titanic coast to coast lawlessness, while keeping a watchful eye on teenagers and citizens, making sure they fall after they trip.
I have a LOT more problems with that judge than I do this one!
I'm wondering how old 'orangelobster' is. Maybe 12?
How the heck can you expect people to "straighten up" when you treat them like trash? Start expecting personal responsibility out of people, instead of punishing them for the sake of "discipline" and maybe THEN you'll get people to straighten up.
Besides, if the intention was to get the girl to straighten out of her life (which I doubt was on the mind of that judge) - then giving her jailtime for the drug charge would have been more proper.
Come on, that's a little overblown. If you want to rant about judges this is not the case, try the Mass. Supremes, or the 9th Circus court.
This girl probably didn't want to miss a call from her crack dealer, that's why she didn't turn it off.
Well said.
Good for the judge. Some folks like this girl basically flip off those that state what the rules are.
Perhaps the little brat will learn a lesson.
How come the citizens are bound by rules and regulations, yet millions entering our country illegally get a routine pass?
Which laws are we able to ignore?
I like to start with my taxes. How much money is it going to cost the tax payers to jail this teenager for 21 days, for her cell phone ringing?
Maybe he should have her hand cut off so she'll really be sorry. The judges in this country are not only out of control but elitist, disgraceful, power-mad idiots.
This is a district court judge -- he doesn't have much say in matters of illegal immigration.
If it's irksome that illegal immigrants are running around and ignoring our laws, why doesn't it irk you that this 17-year-old ignores a judge's authority in a courtroom?
That said, not all judges are arrogant b@stards suffering from a God Complex and are genuinely doing the best job they can and are NOT jerks.
We don't know all the details of what happened in teh court and projection is no way to draw a conclusion. Neither is the article, which is a TAD to politically charged to be trusted as being entirely truthful. Sounds like we're getting only carefully edited information that the author wants us to get, just so we'll draw a predefined conclusion.
That amount of manipulativeness strikes me as suspiciously exxagerated and makes me wonder what the heck is being HIDDEN.
"I'm wondering how old 'orangelobster' is. Maybe 12?"
yeah, I'm 12 in lobster years.
Then you need to get some therapy. Cell phones did not even exist 20 years ago, and the planet was, and is still rotating on its axis. BTW, go back to grammar school.
You know, one of the things that reinforces my law abiding behavior is the fear of what might happen to me in jail. You blame the judge, but it seems to me that she is the one in control of what happens to her. If I get burned when I stick my hand in the fire, it's not the fire's fault.
You speak as though you know Judge Alamia personally. Do you?
I wish what I said were overblown - but that doesn't appear to be the case. I see a bunch of people pandering with lines about, "She needs to learn to follow the rules!" or some other crack about how "deserved it." It isn't a rant about judges.
People seem to uphold abuses of power and abuses of the law when it serves their personal convictions - not when it serves the law itself.
And you saying that, "she didn't want to miss a call from her crack dealer..." just underlines my point.
You clearly don't get it.
Why are we bound by law, to obey rules and regulations when our law makers, law enforcement, and judges stand by watching this epic coast to coast lawlessness?
*Countless* times judges have released people that are in our country illegally, countless times law enforcement has failed to even arrest those invading our country.
Yet citizens are bound by the letter of the law?
Do you not see something very wrong with this picture?
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