Posted on 02/05/2013 4:25:35 PM PST by SMGFan
A cranky Florida teenager, upset over getting arrested for drug possession, lashed out at a Miami judge during her bond hearing Monday, flipping him the bird and earning a 30-day sentence for contempt in the process. Penelope Soto, who had been arrested for having Xanax and was charged with possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, was brought before Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat on Monday. The stern jurist asked the 18-year-old Soto, who was wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, about her assets, probing into how much her jewelry was worth, according to NBCMiami.com. Soto, who had been laughing and smiling through the hearing, chuckled at the question.
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She earned it. If you ask me the judge was surprisingly good tempered with her.
These judges that slap on extra time because somebody dared to disrespect their authority(!) look nothing but petty and small. He'd look like a much bigger man if he simply shrugged it off.
Obviously this girl is a piece of work, but judges aren't special or above the average citizen (although most of them seemingly think they are). They shouldn't be allowed such discretion in things such as things.
Saw the video on FNC earlier and I could not understand the judge! He sounded like an East European!
I don’t disagree with the judge but it’s been a long time since the judiciary in this country deserved any respect.
Governments of all branches and levels are earning less and less of my respect anymore. I know of a few police departments that are thugs, crooks, and tax collectors. Legislators are almost all socialists. The executive branches (save some Republican govenors) are corrupt favor factories.
Sigh......
I used to be mildly optimistic about American governance.
Governments of all branches and levels are earning less and less of my respect anymore. I know of a few police departments that are thugs, crooks, and tax collectors. Legislators are almost all socialists. The executive branches (save some Republican govenors) are corrupt favor factories.
Sigh......
I used to be mildly optimistic about American governance.
In this case the judge certainly didn’t do or say anything to earn the girl’s disrespect.
I once had a judge ask me what I did for a living. When I told her I worked as a painter in a factory she told me that all painters are drunks.
Rodriguez-Chomat began his career in 1971 as an internal revenue agent. He then served as a Certified Public Accountant in 1976. He also ran his own law practice, Law Offices of Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat & Associates, P.A. In 1994, he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives, where he served District 114 as a Republican from 1995 to 1999. He joined the Circuit Court in 2011
No, not all of them. However, MANY house painters do have problems with alcohol. I've seen it first hand. It is not painting houses that causes that, but the difficulty in finding good house painters that allows those with alcohol problems to still get jobs painting houses.
Well, it is time the adults took control and insisted on some self control. It is about respecting the institution, not necessarily the judge personally. I would have given her more time just for being an a$$....
“Soto, who was wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, about her assets,”
TTIWWP!
There ya go!
“When I told her I worked as a painter in a factory she told me that all painters are drunks.”
I knew one that wasn’t a drunk. He just drank a lot.
Should have been a mistrial right then and there
There needs to be order in the court for it function. She got less than what she deserved. Repulsive little junkie.
Our courts are supposed to be. But no one has any respect for the law anymore.
I was in court years ago in L.A. when a young kid, about 16, was up in front of the judge for driving his mom’s boyfriend’s car without a license. This constituted multiple offenses.
The judge asked him “How do you plead, guilty or not guilty?”
The kid, to his credit, had in the meanwhile gone out and gotten his license. He wanted to show the license to the Judge, and began mumbling, thrusting his hand forward.
The Judge, obviously clueing into what the kid was trying to do, said sternly “Guilty or not guilty?”
After about three times the kid reluctantly pleaded guilty.
The Judge then said, in an equally stern voice, “What’s that in your hand?” The kid immediately brightened up and said “Oh, I got my license!”.
After the Judge inspected it, and found it good, he fined the kid $11.00. He then asked the kid if he had it. The kid didn’t have it. So, in round two, the Judge said “Well, I have a nice warm jail”. The kid said “I can get it”, whereupon the Judge released him and gave him ‘till 4:00 p.m. to get the money to the clerk.
It was obvious that the Judge was impressed by the fact that the kid had gotten his license in the meantime, and cut him a whole lot of slack as a result. It was equally obvious that he wanted the kid to sweat a bit, so as to realize that this wasn’t nursery school.
Some people catch on, and some don’t.
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