Law Humor

WHEREAS, You Acted Like a Jerk In Court

By Kevin Underhill

WHEREAS, on the dates set out below, in the presence of Judge Thomas Mountjoy of the Court of Greene County, Missouri, attorney Carlos Dupree Romious, aka D. Carlos Romious, did do the following stupid things, among others:

On June 16, 2008, during the hearing of pre-trial motions in the jury trial of the above-styled case, Carlos Dupree Romious, aka D. Carlos Romious, did loudly and rudely assert that the court proceeding was a "joke" and a "travesty" . . . [and] did loudly and rudely accuse the Court of "corrupting and stinking up the case" . . . .

On June 17, 2008, during the hearing of pre-trial motions in the jury trial of the above-styled case, Carlos Dupree Romious, aka D. Carlos Romious, did loudly and rudely accuse the Court of "being anything other than impartial, justiciable [sic] and anything but competent" . . . [and took] a copy of a pleading served upon him in open court . . . , wadded it up and threw it on the floor some distance from counsel table and thereafter walked to it and used his shoe to grind it into the floor . . . [and] did indicate to Court his refusal to appear in court [when ordered, saying] "don't hold your breath" . . . .

On June 18, 2008, during the hearing of pre-trial motions in the jury trial of the above-styled case, Carlos Dupree Romious, aka D. Carlos Romious, did loudly and rudely ask the Court, "are you a pedophile?"

All of which said behavior was willfully and intentionally committed, contemptuous, insolent and directly tended to interrupt the proceedings of the Court and the respect due to its authority . . . Carlos Dupree Romious, aka D. Carlos Romious, is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of direct criminal contempt.

AND WHEREAS Carlos Dupree Romious, aka D. Carlos Romious, did not show up on June 19, 2008, to defend his client in the fraud trial scheduled that day,

ALTHOUGH that was not necessarily his fault, as he was scheduled to appear in Kansas federal court that day to answer a charge of assaulting a court security officer there,

BUT he did do the other stuff in the presence of the Court,

THEREFORE, Carlos Dupree Romious, aka D. Carlos Romious, was sentenced to 120 days in jail, and subjected to being written about in various legal-humor blogs and whatnot, until such time as he should cease to do acts including but not limited to the foregoing.

SO ORDERED.

Link: WSJ Law Blog
Link: Associated Press

Full post as published by Lowering the Bar on August 06, 2008 (boomark / email).