Posted on 11/29/2007 11:53:56 PM PST by Westlander
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- A New York judge who jailed a courtroom full of people over a ringing cell phone is off the bench.
He demanded that the phone be handed over, threatening to lock up everybody if no one came forward.
When nobody did, the judge ordered all 46 people in the room hauled off to the city jail, where they were searched.
Those who couldn't post bond were shackled and bused to the county lockup.
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I didn’t realize that this happen in 2005 the media acted like it happened last week. I like what the judge did he was keeping law and order in his court room their has to be a line or soon some idiot will answer the their phone and rudely start talking in the court room.
LOL!
He’d have to let the women go — they never do that.
What this Judge did is totally unconstitutional.
The way I see it this Judge should be charged with unlawful imprisonment.
He had no probable cause to detain and search anyone even in court rooms people retain their Constitutional Rights.
This guy is some kind of power mad fool.
Judges are just about gods in their courtrooms but they are still bound by law.
Locking up 45 innocent people to catch the one turd blossom is not keeping law and order; it is lawless!
If he actually had everyone hauled of to jail that is including the Lawyers I am not surprised that he lost his seat.
Lawyers are not going to put up with that kind of behavior of judges when it happens to them. .
Judges can do what they like to the little people but a lawyer is not going to put up a judge doing it to them.
Being a judge seems to be dangerous to some people’s mental balance. It must be the godlike power and the obsequiousness they come to expect.
Nazi bastard. This is a contemptable person and what you get when you think you are a power that answers to no one.
We had a similar type of judge in Seminole County...who locked up a bunch of people for showing up late to a juror selection....they were all directed to the wrong courtroom.
Some were in jail for days...missing work and lost business.
Eventually the judge was removed
There needs to be immediate disciplinary action on idiot judges. Also we need to do away with the “cult of the robe” types. Judges are there to serve the people....not serve themselves.
Unfortunately, weak Executive branches let this stuff happen. When the Executive branch grabs its nads and starts pushing discipline on judges, this nonsense will stop
Judge = lawyer in a dress.
Regards
Actually he only locked up one person along with his “network”.
And fard, too.
What? Don’t these NYers understand the concept of “judicial independence?”
If you can let murderers and rapists off with a slap on the hand in the name of judicial independence, then this seems pretty benign.
I like what the judge did he was keeping law and order in his court.
I don’t. How is that legal? He could have easily cleared the court room which would have been legal.
Well, that makes it OK then.
Ahh, good old American justice . . . . . .
(And some say that BUSH is a cowboy!!)
/sarc
I disagree. I lived in Seminole County at the time that this occurred and remember the incident well.
Rather than hold disciplinary hearings on these people, we need to end lifetime appointments of all federal judges (including the SCOTUS) and subject the judicial record of all judges to a citizen review panel.
SCOTUS justices should be appointed to one 10 year term with an option to be reappointed to a second 10 year term. Federal and non-federal judges should be limited to a 5 year term unless they are removed on the recommendation of the citizen review panel. Federal and non-federal judges (like their SCOTUS counterparts) should be limited to a maximum of 2 terms.
The cops who thugged it up for this robed idiot are just as bad. Robotic compliance to any order is not something we should accept from law enforcement.
Freegards
There is nothing wrong with contempt of court when the court is, indeed contemptible.
Judge Robert Restaino was removed Tuesday by a state judicial panel.
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