[beezdotcom]

A judge starts handing out prison sentences for innocuous accidents

Oh, you were there? So you can confirm it was innocuous? Is anybody convicted of contempt ever actually guilty of contempt?

Besides, my guess is that if she hadn't been convicted of the other charge, she would have spent a night in a cell and it would have been reduced. We really have no way of knowing.

I'm guessing you've had some problem with authority figures in your past, and that's why you so slavishly side with the defendant, not knowing anything about the current situation. You may accuse me of the same with the judge - but you see, I didn't jump in to attack the defendent, I just saw a lot of people ignorant of all of the details (as are we ALL), attacking the judge.

You know, I could take the other side, if anybody actually offered up some FACTS. All I've seen is a lot of speculation about a case that could go either way depending on how the details get filled in.

[orangelobster]

"I'm guessing you've had some problem with authority figures in your past, and that's why you so slavishly side with the defendant, "

this is about the fourth time on this thread that someone has argued that I must have problems with authority figures or must be a criminal of some kind. Quite the contrary, I don't see this judge as an authority figure, but as a punk imposter of a judge. I don't need to know any other facts other than he sentenced a kid to jail for a cellphone. He needs to be removed and I assume some authentic 'authority figures' will remove him, if not for this, then for some other outrageous miscarriage of justice. If the guy is not admonished for this he will only hurt the process and hurt his own future.