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D.C. judge cited for not being "patient, dignified and courteous" for jailing a PD who kept arguing

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

A D.C. judge has been judicially cited for not being "patient, dignified and courteous" for jailing a PD who kept arguing after being told to shut up. D.C. Judge Cited for Ordering Detention of Talkative PD, on ABAJournal.com: A Washington, D.C., judge who ordered the detention of a public defender who wouldn’t stop talking has accepted a determination that he violated the judicial ethics code. Judge John Bayly Jr. said he acted because the PD, Liyah Brown, argued with him over whether her client was homeless—and kept on arguing even when he told her to stop. On Bayly’s order, Brown was shackled and held in a cell for about 45 minutes. A year ago, a Knoxville lawyer was held in criminal contempt for the same thing. U.S. v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).