Courtroom shenanigans...

[Shadowtek]

Today I was attending court while my little sister was being sentenced. I was sitting in the third row and about in the middle. As the judge was reading the charges and the penalties the defendant started laughing. (the plaintiff is one of those people who love to see the misery of others) I cast a very hateful look her direction and the judge spotted me when I did so. The judge stopped his reading and pointed at me and said "You there, who are you?" I told him my name. He checked his records and saw that I am the brother of the defendant. He looks back at me and begins to give me a lecture about revenge and how its wrong. After his speech he looks back at me and points to me and states, "No one in your family is to go anywhere near anyone in the plaintiff's family." He then makes note of my name in the official papers.

This must have been a REALLY intense stare to warrant the judge to break his list of charges speech. I thought it was pretty funny. (I also have NO criminal record)

 

[NeutralDrow]

If your little sister is being sentenced, doesn't that mean she's the defendant?

 

[Shadowtek]

actually... you could be right. Im not very well versed in the courtroom terms. If indeed you are correct, Thanks. (I cant be right all the time... although I do try lol)

 

[Antidamacus]

This story makes no sense

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

Roger that, your sister's the defendant, the person you death-stared was the plaintiff.

 

[wordsmith]

I call shenanigans on your courtroom shenanigans.

Evidence or it didn't happen

 

[SuperFelix]

What sort of prosecutor laughs at a guilty verdict, other than Miles Edgeworth? That sort of gloating shouldn't be allowed in the courts.

 

[Shadowtek]

Roger that, you're sister's the defendant, the person you death-stared was the plaintiff.

ahh ok, that sounds right. thanks for the correction.

 

[SquirrelPants]

What sort of prosecutor laughs at a guilty verdict, other than Miles Edgeworth? That sort of gloating shouldn't be allowed in the courts.

Laughing at other peoples' misery makes you automatically lose. =3

 

[Antidamacus]

Was his sister being sentenced or was this other person? How do you confuse your sister (the victim) as the assailant?

 

[SuperFelix]

What sort of prosecutor laughs at a guilty verdict, other than Miles Edgeworth? That sort of gloating shouldn't be allowed in the courts.

Laughing at other peoples' misery makes you automatically lose. =3

Depends on the situation. In a professional environment it should be penalized, but if someone slipped on a banana skin you'd have to laugh

 

[Gitsnik]

Ohk I don't get the OP's story. So in the interest of keeping the thread alive, here's my own:

2002, I'm 16 years old, Inquest into the death of two of my friends (my best included), background story is it was a police chase ending in a high speed collision ("stolen" car was drivers parents).

ANYWAY, Lawyer asking me if all these different things were possible, could the car have been further behind than just 200m at those speeds etc. and I was saying "yes, yes, yes" a lot. My mother is mortified because she thinks I'm changing the story (which as I noticed later, was what the coroner thought too), at the end of the questioning (about 10 minutes worth):

Lawyer: "So you're saying the car wasn't actually as close as you said earlier" (among other things)
Gitsnik: "No, you're saying that"
Coroner: "[Gitsnik] you realise that lying in court is a serious offence"
Gitsnik: "Yes sir, but if the man asks me for possibilities I'm going to answer him. It is possible the car was further back, but it wasn't. It is possible there was an elephant on the freeway at the time, but there wasn't."
Coroner: (after reprimanding me for being "cheeky") "You gave as good as you got".

I had the other 5 lawyers come up and congratulate me on making him look like an ass. Apparently he's one of the better lawyers in the state at the time.

Who else did something funny in a court room?

 

[Theocrati]

edit, I'm an idiot. Didn't read the entire thread before posting.

 

[Jimmyjames]

I had my fine doubled when I went to traffic court because I was chewing gum.

Before I even spoke, he said, "Are you chewing gum?"
I said, "Oh, yes, sorry. I do it when I'm nervous and I forgot to spit it out."
Judge says, "Contempt of court. $250 traffic violation and $250 fine for contempt."

I just about fell over. Fucking motherfucking asshole, the guy.

 

[SquirrelPants]

What sort of prosecutor laughs at a guilty verdict, other than Miles Edgeworth? That sort of gloating shouldn't be allowed in the courts.

Laughing at other peoples' misery makes you automatically lose. =3

Depends on the situation. In a professional environment it should be penalized, but if someone slipped on a banana skin you'd have to laugh

Aha, very true. What if someone spontaneously combusted, then slipped on a wet floor, effectively extinguishing said fire? Would it be okay to laugh?


Oh, also involving court: My sister was in the back seat of someone else's car a couple years back. The person behind them rear-ended the car my sister and her friends were in, and now my sister is getting sued.
(And by "Now", I literally mean that it was a few weeks ago that they sued her.)

 

[ChaoticLegion]

Sounds like a load of nonsense to me.... ahh well.

 

[Lyiat]

What sort of prosecutor laughs at a guilty verdict, other than Miles Edgeworth? That sort of gloating shouldn't be allowed in the courts.

Laughing at other peoples' misery makes you automatically lose. =3

Depends on the situation. In a professional environment it should be penalized, but if someone slipped on a banana skin you'd have to laugh

Aha, very true. What if someone spontaneously combusted, then slipped on a wet floor, effectively extinguishing said fire? Would it be okay to laugh?

Are they very badly burnt?

 

[Elexia]

When i was doing legal studies in high school, we sat at the back of a courtroom watching people come and go facing whatever minor charges they had, like speeding fines, public nuisance etc. When one of the defendants didn't show, the judge, who was aware of a class of uniformed girls watching the proceedings invited one of us to take the place of the absent defendant. None of us were game to volunteer and the missing defendant ended up getting fined for missing their appearance, on top of whatever charge they already had.

At the end of an hour, we walked outside and saw a crazy guy standing on top of a public bus jumping up and down and generally being a public nuisance. After he dropped his pants, our teacher quizzed us on the charges he would face once the swarm of police officers surrounding the bus caught him.

Legal studies was never so fun again...

 

[orifice]

He looks back at me and begins to give me a lecture about revenge and how its wrong. After his speech he looks back at me and points to me and states, "No one in your family is to go anywhere near anyone in the plaintiff's family." He then makes note of my name in the official papers.

At which point my response would have been to laugh maniacally, and then state "What you can't prove, you can't do anything about." Then got up and left still laughing!

 

[bjj hero]

Good on the judge, he should be defending the plaintiff from harrassment. You might not intend to harrass her but he needs to make it clear that its not acceptable.

You havent been charged or found in contempt. He just made the ground rules clear.