NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: You Better Not Budge, ‘Cause Here Come The Judge
When court clerks called college freshman Kelsey Gloston to find out why she was a no-show for jury duty she claimed to have had a flat tire and refused the clerk's offer of a lift to court, saying she preferred to go to class instead. Gloston then hung up on the clerk who called back to inform her that U.S. District Judge David Hittner wanted her to appear the following week, and the judge “decided to teach her a civics lesson by ordering federal marshals to haul her in chains from school to court to explain why she shirked jury duty,” reports The Houston Chronicle:
Gloston stood in ankle and wrist restraints in court … wearing flip flops, a tight white T-shirt, short-shorts and sporting green streaks in her hair. Though she rolled her eyes and looked impatient while waiting for the judge, once [he] took the bench her tears flowed.
The judge was incensed that the teen had hung up on jury clerks calling to get her to the courthouse. …
“Nobody hangs up on our people,” Hittner told Gloston, who tried to explain herself but was stopped by the judge who said she should do it [at a hearing to determine whether she was in contempt of court] with a lawyer by her side.
The woman’s father, Darrell Gloston, claims his daughter needed medical attention because “her ankles were bleeding and bruised from the ankle restraints,” and berates the judge for overreacting, given that his 19-year-old daughter is “ignorant, she's a kid. They don't take anything seriously.”
He should tell that to the parents of 19-year-olds serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
YES!! "Tell that to the soldiers." Good, good comeback, and absolutely right. If it were my kid who got hauled out of class in chains, I would send the judge a cigar.
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