"Dude! Like, chill!"
Posted on 02/05/2013 4:25:35 PM PST by SMGFan
A cranky Florida teenager, upset over getting arrested for drug possession, lashed out at a Miami judge during her bond hearing Monday, flipping him the bird and earning a 30-day sentence for contempt in the process. Penelope Soto, who had been arrested for having Xanax and was charged with possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, was brought before Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat on Monday. The stern jurist asked the 18-year-old Soto, who was wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, about her assets, probing into how much her jewelry was worth, according to NBCMiami.com. Soto, who had been laughing and smiling through the hearing, chuckled at the question.
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She earned it. If you ask me the judge was surprisingly good tempered with her.
These judges that slap on extra time because somebody dared to disrespect their authority(!) look nothing but petty and small. He'd look like a much bigger man if he simply shrugged it off.
Obviously this girl is a piece of work, but judges aren't special or above the average citizen (although most of them seemingly think they are). They shouldn't be allowed such discretion in things such as things.
Saw the video on FNC earlier and I could not understand the judge! He sounded like an East European!
I don’t disagree with the judge but it’s been a long time since the judiciary in this country deserved any respect.
Governments of all branches and levels are earning less and less of my respect anymore. I know of a few police departments that are thugs, crooks, and tax collectors. Legislators are almost all socialists. The executive branches (save some Republican govenors) are corrupt favor factories.
Sigh......
I used to be mildly optimistic about American governance.
Governments of all branches and levels are earning less and less of my respect anymore. I know of a few police departments that are thugs, crooks, and tax collectors. Legislators are almost all socialists. The executive branches (save some Republican govenors) are corrupt favor factories.
Sigh......
I used to be mildly optimistic about American governance.
In this case the judge certainly didn’t do or say anything to earn the girl’s disrespect.
I once had a judge ask me what I did for a living. When I told her I worked as a painter in a factory she told me that all painters are drunks.
Rodriguez-Chomat began his career in 1971 as an internal revenue agent. He then served as a Certified Public Accountant in 1976. He also ran his own law practice, Law Offices of Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat & Associates, P.A. In 1994, he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives, where he served District 114 as a Republican from 1995 to 1999. He joined the Circuit Court in 2011
No, not all of them. However, MANY house painters do have problems with alcohol. I've seen it first hand. It is not painting houses that causes that, but the difficulty in finding good house painters that allows those with alcohol problems to still get jobs painting houses.
Well, it is time the adults took control and insisted on some self control. It is about respecting the institution, not necessarily the judge personally. I would have given her more time just for being an a$$....
“Soto, who was wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, about her assets,”
TTIWWP!
There ya go!
“When I told her I worked as a painter in a factory she told me that all painters are drunks.”
I knew one that wasn’t a drunk. He just drank a lot.
Should have been a mistrial right then and there
There needs to be order in the court for it function. She got less than what she deserved. Repulsive little junkie.
Our courts are supposed to be. But no one has any respect for the law anymore.
I was in court years ago in L.A. when a young kid, about 16, was up in front of the judge for driving his mom’s boyfriend’s car without a license. This constituted multiple offenses.
The judge asked him “How do you plead, guilty or not guilty?”
The kid, to his credit, had in the meanwhile gone out and gotten his license. He wanted to show the license to the Judge, and began mumbling, thrusting his hand forward.
The Judge, obviously clueing into what the kid was trying to do, said sternly “Guilty or not guilty?”
After about three times the kid reluctantly pleaded guilty.
The Judge then said, in an equally stern voice, “What’s that in your hand?” The kid immediately brightened up and said “Oh, I got my license!”.
After the Judge inspected it, and found it good, he fined the kid $11.00. He then asked the kid if he had it. The kid didn’t have it. So, in round two, the Judge said “Well, I have a nice warm jail”. The kid said “I can get it”, whereupon the Judge released him and gave him ‘till 4:00 p.m. to get the money to the clerk.
It was obvious that the Judge was impressed by the fact that the kid had gotten his license in the meantime, and cut him a whole lot of slack as a result. It was equally obvious that he wanted the kid to sweat a bit, so as to realize that this wasn’t nursery school.
Some people catch on, and some don’t.
“When I told her I worked as a painter in a factory she told me that all painters are drunks”
I thought they were thieves?
/s
Ya ever seen the inside of a courthouse in today's America?
They have more cash registers than a super walmart..
Too bad we all don't have the power of government judges, who can throw a tantrum and put people in cages for a month at a time because some young kid flipped um off.
The judge must be a real petty punk, or someone the other kids picked on in school.
I agree.
She obviously had never been taught to respect any authority. She will probably not be mouthing off quite as much once she is in jail for 30 days.
People don’t respect a law so thick with offenses that everyone is guilty, so arbitrarily applied, and generally asinine. I’m sick of the whole lot.
I will not even begin to argue that point due to other experience I have had.
Does she do that for a living?
My sympathies lie with the judge. There are a lot of stupid people out there who neither understand nor appreciate that they are in trouble, and the judge before them will determine how much trouble they are in.
A lot of them act like animals in front of the judge, playing with themselves, laughing, ignoring the judge and trying to converse with their friends in the gallery, throwing things, cursing, spitting, getting violent, threatening people, and the list just goes on and on.
It is no surprise that judges get very crusty about it.
So now this party girl will get 30 days, and when she comes back she had better be extra respectful or she will get another 30.
That little puta is a hero of the revolucion!
What's new?
This will cost the tax payers tens of thousand for this stupid incident just so the judge can beat his chest and not look stupid during his tax paid lunch.
Back when I was a teenager (telegraph was still the main form of e-comm) my old daddy was a Hale County Deputy Sheriff.
If I had been busted for something, my old daddy would have been standing right next to me there before the court, and he would have been on a personal level with that judge.
If I had even thought about extending my middle finger at that man behind the bench, I would have been spitting Chiclets darn fast.
Ahhhh, the good old days.
That’s right. It’s us sheetrockers are the drunks!
lol
She was acting like a little snot, and had the opportunity to save herself. Instead, she decided to insult the judge’s intelligence during the part where she was disclosing her assets, then she stepped over the line by cussing out the judge. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Filthy little skank. She got off lucky, If she were back at duh club and she tried that some homie would have put a cap in her a$$
To: US_MilitaryRules
In case you’re wondering, at least one of us got it.
On FRee Republic.
This isn't a cop or some other LEO who's abusing his authority beating on a suspect or carrying out an illegal search. This is a judge presiding over a bail hearing where there's no need for confrontation. All she has to do is be polite for 15 seconds and she can't even manage it. The woman is showing contempt for the court; it's clearly criminal contempt, and that means contempt for the people of Florida.
I’m sure it’ll make the judge feel better about himself that he has the power to FORCE someone to apologize.
Dumbest non-sequitur I've read all month, but it's still young...
Yeah that’s one of the friendliest judges I’ve seen and her behavior was uncalled for.
This is exactly why we’ll never have the glorious revolution that some here seem to fantasize about. Too many have zero respect for authority and aren’t even smart enough to fake it. Their little revolution is doomed by a million little generals who are worried about being disrespected.
It is a matter of her lack of respect for our laws and the court, not about the judge.
Ya don’t have to respect everybody but ya gotta be smart enough to know when to fake it.
Bad memories about your own court experiences? Good luck if you can’t see the problem with stupid behavior by stupid, arrogant people in court.
1. When in court, it is not meant to be a humorous affair. It is quite serious.
2. Keep your opinions to yourself, whether verbal or gesticulated. Court is not interested in them nor in your wasting time with them. You want to waste your or anyone else's time, go find a soapbox and an alley to stand on to express them freely and expound upon whatever tickles your fancy. Not in court -that is not what they are there for. Just as you are a fool if you make unflattering comments or gestures to the man you are renting a room from and subsequently get tossed out of his house on your big fat keister for it, no one has any sympathy for your idiotic actions and the consequences thereby if you do.
3. Get caught and wind up in court because of it; time to pay the piper. Man up. Disparaging comments or flipping the bird is not going to cut it. Quite a few of the locales I came to know over the years you would be lucky to get away with just losing a finger over such an action, and anyone witnessing your stupidity would just shake their heads in disgust at you and walk away. Just in case such stupidity was contagious.
Yeah - bit of a red herring there, BUT many here on FR said much worse than this little twit concerning that ruling. The only difference was that it was in the court of public opinion and not in a courthouse.
As for respect, that is earned. I don't know the judge, but asking the defendant about her assets seems to be a bit overboard. Was he trying to take everything she owned to prove a point?
Maybe it will do her some good, she isn’t a bad looking kid, doesn’t sound stupid. She could probably have a decent future if she wants to.
Like a previous poster so eloquently stated: "play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
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