[HiTech RedNeck]

You treat everyone else in the courtroom as worthless if you deliverately disrupt the proceedings by continuing to fiddle with your phone, thereby leaving it on to ring.

Why didn't the judge call the girl on the phone-fiddling then? "Stop fiddling with that phone, turn it off, and give it to me." That would have been a more reasonable move if the goal was to keep order, rather than to just be punitive.

[beezdotcom]

That would have been a more reasonable move if the goal was to keep order, rather than to just be punitive.

Who says you can't do both? Besides, she never served a day more for the contempt conviction, anyway. If he really wanted to be punitive, he could have done much better.