"It's sickening to see this slavish obeisance to authority figures that some people on this thread apparently have."
It's good for the orangelobster to see that there are some young people on here that have more sense than the judge. You should go to law school and replace this jerk on the bench. He obviously does not respect the law and simply prosecutes people according to his personal whims. The judge must have personal issues with the young whippersnappers.
Maybe he just has a problem with cell phones. If she went to law school and her phone rang during her bar exam I'm sure it wouldn't have gone well for her. What about the one post mentioning that if a cell phone rang during the exam, the cell phone owner would be ejected from the exam and be given a zero? Is that too harsh? Relatively speaking, isn't being before a judge a little more serious than taking an exam?