Man gets sentenced to jail for 6 months - For yawning?

[turtle825]

I am not kidding - a man from Illinois was charged with criminal contempt for yawning during his cousin's felony drug trial (his cousin was sentenced to at least 21 days in jail). Will County Circuit judge Daniel Rozak was the man responsible for bringing down the hammer on this guy for a rather harmless gesture. What an asshole!

*Here's the story.

 

[Ace Bandage]

He did it on purpose. The prosecutor said it was meant to be a boisterous attempt to disrupt the proceedings. That's why you don't screw around in a court room, you jackanapes. He's lucky I wasn't the judge. I would have had him shot.

 

[jackwang]

If the guy was acting up, then I guess he got what he deserves. Everyone is expected to behave in court.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

He did it on purpose. The prosecutor said it was meant to be a boisterous attempt to disrupt the proceedings. That's why you don't screw around in a court room, you jackanapes. He's lucky I wasn't the judge. I would have had him shot.

I love what you stand for! I shall be your campaign manager when you decide to run for the bench! Yes... I can see it now~~~

Kapew, kapew! bang, bang! BOOM, BOOM!

Anyone else want to yawn in the courtroom of Judge Andronicus Ry, you yawning bastards!!!

 

[Hot Mega]

He did it on purpose. The prosecutor said it was meant to be a boisterous attempt to disrupt the proceedings. That's why you don't screw around in a court room, you jackanapes. He's lucky I wasn't the judge. I would have had him shot.

Well it's a privilege to be in a courtroom as an observer. The first remedy the judge should have pursued is to have the clown cleared from his courtroom.

Criminal contempt is a VERY steep penalty for that and usually reserved for people who need to be in the courtroom and/or egregiously fail to adhere to some court proceeding.

The judge is a knucklehead IMO.

 

[Riffy]

Harsh... but how about this wee tale>> http://www.ayrshirepost.net/ayrshir...tering-after-dropping-tenner-102545-23830155/

 

[Hot Mega]

Harsh... but how about this wee tale>> http://www.ayrshirepost.net/ayrshir...tering-after-dropping-tenner-102545-23830155/

For some reason, I LOVE this phrase...:1orglaugh

“I’m living on £98 a fortnight at the moment....."

What a way to make something incredibly simple sound impressively sophisticated...

 

[Legzman]

I used to live in Will County about 10 years ago. Glad I don't anymore, I yawn a lot!

 

[ChefChiTown]

Chuck Pelkie, a spokesman for the state's attorney's office, said the prosecutor in the courtroom that day told him that "it was not a simple yawn -- it was a loud and boisterous attempt to disrupt the proceedings."

If that's the case, then the judge was in the right.

A Tribune review of a decade's worth of contempt-of-court charges reveals that Rozak jails people -- typically spectators whose cell phones go off or who scream or shout profanity during sentencing -- at a far higher rate than any other judge in the county. There are now 30 judges in the 12th Judicial Circuit, but since 1999, Rozak has brought more than a third of all the contempt charges, records show.

But, then again...

 

[J. Friday]

I live in Illinois and I can tell you that the negatives far outweigh the positives in this state. If you ever find yourself driving through the Midwest in the U.S. then make sure to drive around the state of Illinois and don't waste your time going through it.

 

[habo9]

The guy thought he was being funny........:rofl:

Whose laughing now?.............................:weeping:


Serves him right for being a smart-ass

 

[gunslingingbird]

I've always thought that judges act with complete impunity because they know that they're the ones who make the law and there's nobody who can overrule them and point out what fucking pompous, self-serving cretins they really are. Even cops get reprimanded for abuse of authority, but not judges. They can act like real-life Judge Judies, and they know that nobody can stand up to them. They're all bullies. And that's just the beginning of the fucked up "justice system" in the US. :crash:

Harsh... but how about this wee tale>> http://www.ayrshirepost.net/ayrshir...tering-after-dropping-tenner-102545-23830155/

Now that's ridiculous. Don't cops have common sense these days? I thought they had implemented that as a requirement, like, 5 years ago, or something.

Whose laughing now?

The fucking prickhole judge is.

 

[Hot Mega]

The guy thought he was being funny........:rofl:

Whose laughing now?.............................:weeping:


Serves him right for being a smart-ass

It was stupid of the Judge to do that. He should have smacked the clown with a $1K fine and had him removed from the courtroom.

Instead this idiot Judge just sentenced the local taxpayer to paying for this joker's housing for the next six months and likely caused this loser to lose his job if he had one.

Maybe this yawning clown isn't the only one who needs to learn the price of stupidity. This Judge needs a crash course in it too it would seem.

 

[habo9]

I've always thought that judges act with complete impunity because they know that they're the ones who make the law and there's nobody who can overrule them and point out what fucking pompous, self-serving cretins they really are. Even cops get reprimanded for abuse of authority, but not judges. They can act like real-life Judge Judies, and they know that nobody can stand up to them. They're all bullies. And that's just the beginning of the fucked up "justice system" in the US. :crash:

Now that's ridiculous. Don't cops have common sense these days? I thought they had implemented that as a requirement, like, 5 years ago, or something.


The fucking prickhole judge is.

I think 6 months is a bit harsh , I think a couple of weeks would have been more sensible , if the guy was acting up , he deserved something for basically " acting a bit of a wanker " :eek:

 

[Hot Mega]

I'm not a judge but I have a few friends that are either judges or commissioners and generally my position to them why jail a person when a fine will get the point across?

I think you only put people in jail who belong in jail and not waste taxpayer money arresting and housing people that probably don't belong there.

 

[Friday on my mind]

I think 6 months is a bit harsh , I think a couple of weeks would have been more sensible , if the guy was acting up , he deserved something for basically " acting a bit of a wanker " :eek:

In reading the link it seems the judge usually lets people out of jail once they apologize in similar cases.Jail is kinda harsh for contempt.But the big yawn while verdict is read is going to not go over well with the judge.Bet the guy aplogizes and gets released,if not he might do the 6 months.



Moral-Don't dis judges lol.

 

[Will E Worm]

A Tribune review of a decade's worth of contempt-of-court charges reveals that Rozak jails people -- typically spectators whose cell phones go off or who scream or shout profanity during sentencing -- at a far higher rate than any other judge in the county. There are now 30 judges in the 12th Judicial Circuit, but since 1999, Rozak has brought more than a third of all the contempt charges, records show.

Too much power for the little "judge" Daniel Rozak.

He should have been removed from his seat a long time ago.

He sounds like someone who's mother breast feed and coddled him too long.
I bet he was still in diaper at seven.

And, know he likes to be dominated by a dominatrix, whipped, peed on, and told he's a bad boy.

 

[Marlo Manson]

Well it was in a courtroom, with plenty of witnesses, if a courtroom full of his peers believes he was delberately trying to interupt or belittle the judge, the prosecution, or any of the witnesses by something they said, then I firmly believe this moron should have been jailed.

On the otherhand, if by the witnessed accounts of the rest of the courtroom who witnessed the yawn or the so called inappropriate gesture, infact admit it wasn't an attempt to disrupt the proceedings, then I think the judge was a little to tightly wound that day, and should be little more tolerant of some folks natural urges to make a noise when they are doing something that is common amongst the human species every once in a while. i.e.

We can't always control our urges to sneezing, yawning, farting (you can try too contain the noise level, but it doesn't always happen or help. :uohs: ) , hicups, burping (sometimes its unavoidable, sometimes the volume can be controled sometimes not. :dunno::eek

I mean shit happens and we can't always be held responsible for natural body occurances. :2 cents::rofl2:

 

[Alyssa Rose]

He did it on purpose. The prosecutor said it was meant to be a boisterous attempt to disrupt the proceedings. That's why you don't screw around in a court room, you jackanapes. He's lucky I wasn't the judge. I would have had him shot.

One time in high school I was in front of the judge for "attendance" or well lack thereof and she ordered me to stay in school until I was 18 (not that I wasn't planning on it but she 'ordered it') and not miss more than 1 day per year for the remainder of my time in school which pissed me off that any other person in that state could drop out of high school at 16 but because I skipped a few..Okay a lot I was ordered to stay in school, so I tried to explain my theory of how she was being unfair to her and she had me thrown in a holding cell, She even had the bailiff put me in cuffs! So for dramatic affect (since I've seen one to many lifetime movies) I said, "Go ahead throw me in a holding cell you cant silence me, you just dont want the truth, because you can't handle the truth!" Yeah... I went there lol I was in the cell for 12 hours & I held my pee the whole time cuz I was NOT about to pee in a metal toilet while guards looked at me. Anyways the point of my story was when I was finally let out of the cell, the judge said to me "Don't piss of the person with the power of the pen" and I've never forgotten those words to this day lol

 

[gunslingingbird]

One time in high school I was in front of the judge for "attendance" or well lack thereof and she ordered me to stay in school until I was 18 (not that I wasn't planning on it but she 'ordered it') and not miss more than 1 day per year for the remainder of my time in school which pissed me off that any other person in that state could drop out of high school at 16 but because I skipped a few..Okay a lot I was ordered to stay in school, so I tried to explain my theory of how she was being unfair to her and she had me thrown in a holding cell, She even had the bailiff put me in cuffs! So for dramatic affect (since I've seen one to many lifetime movies) I said, "Go ahead throw me in a holding cell you cant silence me, you just dont want the truth, because you can't handle the truth!" Yeah... I went there lol I was in the cell for 12 hours & I held my pee the whole time cuz I was NOT about to pee in a metal toilet while guards looked at me. Anyways the point of my story was when I was finally let out of the cell, the judge said to me "Don't piss of the person with the power of the pen" and I've never forgotten those words to this day lol