Lawyer Jailed For Turning Off His Phone
from the not-quite-what-you'd-expect dept
There are so many stories about how people keep trying to get others to leave their mobile phones alone -- whether while driving or in restaurants or at a performance. However, this story goes in the other direction. Many courthouses actually ban the use of mobile phones, but apparently that's not the case at the courthouse in this story. A judge who was trying to reach a lawyer during his lunch break about a case, later ordered the lawyer to leave his mobile phone on. The lawyer refused and was sent to jail. The article says the lawyer gave no reason for refusing, but it's hard to understand what law would require you to leave your phone on for a judge to call you whenever he wants.
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Mike, Why oh why do you link to stories that require my first born child for a glimpse at the story ?
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Use:
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This works for many news sites.
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Weird. It didn't ask me for reg info at all, and I certainly don't have reg info cookied for this site. However, now, when I go, I get the same request to login. That's bizarre. Anyway, I've changed the link so hopefully the new link won't suddenly switch from open to reg required also.
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Judges rule.
Laws? We don't need no stinkin' laws!
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Thanks Beck & Mike !
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try out bug me not..
http://bugmenot.com/
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Not strange. A lot of online papers will let you look at one page without registering but request a login and password when you try and view a second page (or the same page a second time) on the site.
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Bad Judge
I have an expectation that judges should be good people who will always do the right thing. This judge does not meet that expectation, he or she should be reprimanded to prevent such a reoccurance. This was poor judgement by a judge- something that should not happen.
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