Today I stumbled upon this legal humor site “Lowering the Bar” (http://www.loweringthebar.net)
This site is written by a lawyer in San Francisco, Kevin Underhill. It is full bits of off-beat stories of the law, the legal profession, then some really interesting, witty stuff.
On the site, I came across this actual order of the Circuit Court of the Greene County, 4th Division, Missouri, that the author managed to find which I must now share with you:
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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.
