......I once paid my attorney $10,000.00 in a divorce case. I “borrowed” the money from a friend out of anticipation that the judge would try to force me to pay my soon to be x $5,000.00 so she could pay her attorney.
The judge ordered THE ATTORNEY to pay the money when I said I didn’t have it. The ATTORNEY said he spent it!
The judge threatened to jail the attorney if he didn’t pay it. He called her bluff (he was an x Marine Major). The last thing I heard on it was years later and they were still fighting over it. I went to trial a year later and settled everything in my favor on a lunchbreak!
So, the judge COULD also throw Smith in jail if someone else paid his “sanction”. My guess is she wouldn’t. But, she COULD.
Most judges won’t go after the attorney personally.
They may want a job there later.................