I saw this yesterday. This video doesn’t show it, but the defendant was upset, it seemed to me, that this simple misdemeanor charge wasn’t just getting dealt with now instead of delaying it further. Which…I can’t blame him, but that’s just how courts work, unfortunately. Our criminal justice system is overloaded, largely because of the war on drugs, so there’s really no such thing as a speedy trial, even for a simple case. That being said, you just can’t talk to a judge like that. I do think the judge went too far. This guy has contempt charges adding up to 558 days in jail now, and that’s just excessive. It really is.
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