Circuit Judge Daniel Rozak obviously does not like yawning in the courtroom. He sentenced Clifton Williams to six months in jail after he let out a loud yawn when his cousin was being sentenced on a felony drug charge. The cousin actually received probation.
The incident occurred in the Will County Courthouse in Joliet.
The judge (and the prosecutor) believed that the yawn was an intentional effort to disrupt the proceedings. However, the Tribune has found that Rozak routinely jails people for everything from cellphone calls to speaking loudly. Indeed, of the 30 judges in the 12th Judicial Circuit, he is responsible for one-third of the contempt charges.
I am very sympathetic to the judge’s effort to respond to disruptions and this may have been a rather transparent effort to interrupt the proceedings or mock the court. However, six months is a ridiculous sentence and Rozak is clearly too-quick-on-the-trigger with contempt sanctions.
I am also curious how Rozak can eliminate the possibility of an involuntary yawn as a matter of intent. There is a big difference between shouting in a courtroom — which is clearly voluntary — and a yawn that (while suspicious) could be innocent.
He is not alone in such excessive responses to courtroom misconduct, here and here and here and here.
For the full story, click here.
I guess the Judge does not like getting awakened from his naps. It is story is true, it is time for the Judge to go.
Yep. “Judge” Rozak needs to be working the dog show circuit.
Judge Smails: I’ve sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn’t want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
So as long as the prosecutor agrees with the judge that is a complete fair and impartial trial?
Well, it certainly is more efficient than those old timey trials where the accused has a defense lawyer talking all that due process and constitutional crapola.
Seig heil the wicked witch of inefficiency is dead lord.
The judge is clearly feeding his ego and not interested in the people he is supposedly dispensing justice for. What will do to this mans carrer of job opportunities in the future? Would you believe someone who told you they were in jail for yawning? Our misuse of the justice system ruins lives for ordinary people and the disinterest from the LEO (law enforcement officer) to the judge is further eroding the values this nation was founded upon.
Is that the same judge who had a defendant arrested for not sitting down quick enough?
I thought these people were educated and had a little common sense…. Kinda like a 3yr old at the wheel of a monster truck, don’t ya think? Great colleagues JT has…
I wonder the percentage of humans of color in the makeup of the large amount of people the judge has cited for contempt?
Yawning is not a sign of fatigue. It arises from the a response from a brain that has grown rather warm, and a yawn brings in cool air over the mouth and throat, giving the brain the fanning it needs. That the brain requires more cooling as it transitions from awake to sleep and back is no surprise: the brain runs in two completely different configurations sleep v. awake, so while you’re falling asleep, the brain is just getting started.
Of course, this judge was an idiot before this revelation, make no mistake.
Have you ever tried to suppress a yawn? If people are thinking they can’t yawn in Judge Rozak’s court, they’re going to yawn just because they’re thinking about yawning. Other people in the courtroom will start yawning because we all know yawning is contagious.
If Judge Rozak has a whole courtroom full of people yawning and trying to suppress yawning, he brought it upon himself.
(yawn) :-O LindyLou, :-O (yawn) You did that on purpose!
The last article on a study on yawning I read confirms your thesis and stated that people are so suggestive about yawning that just reading about it and seeing the word ‘yawn’ repeatedly will make most people yawn :-O
Well done LL!
Mike Spindell, your own socialist agenda is only eclipsed by your own stupidity. I can see why you flunked out of law school, you are a fuckin’ moron.
Mike, go back to polishing buddha’s knob!
Mike Spindell attempted to go through gender reassignment. Sadly, he was found to be a non-human anthropoid, sadly sub-human. He will continue to masquerade as a human being albeit chromosomally challenged. Mike, you are living proof that some aborted fetuses make it through the harrowing experience of suction and scraping. You are a testament to life’s ability to adapt and thrive even under the most deleterious of experiences.
Larz:
“Mike Spindell, your own socialist agenda is only eclipsed by your own stupidity. I can see why you flunked out of law school, you are a f***in’ moron.”
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I see your diction is a perfect indicator of your character and intellect. Funny how that’s usually so.
Mespo, why don’t you pull buddha’s dork out of your butt, you might think a little more clearly!
oh please
Go watch Hannity if that’s the best you can do, Larz. Ol Sean appreciates a good man crush. I won’t speak for mespo, but me? Eh, not so much. You dance with whoever you like, just leave me out of it, ‘k?
The judge acted stupidly!
Larz:
“Mespo, why don’t you pull buddha’s dork out of your butt, you might think a little more clearly!”
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You are the gift that just keeps giving. Thanks for proving my point so abundantly!
OFF TOPIC
I just got through looking a my bank statement(s) that I should have been doing for the last 2 years. My only excuse is that I knew sufficient funds were in the accounts or any over drafts would be taken care of.
I have noticed that I have been double and triple debited for items at one store in particular. Unforgettably this has been going on since February 09. We are talking between 20 and 30 dollar hits 4 to 5 times a month. Has anyone else had the problem with CoMerica?
I acknowledge that it is my responsibility. This was just one area of my life that I did not want to have to deal with as my monthly expenses have been taken care of it was the day to day living expenses that I have been supposed to be in charge of.
To be honest, since I lost 400k in June 08, everything else was chump change. The only savings grace for the kids college is when A-Busch was bought out they tendered cash which has set in a 529 account that I dare not touch. Any incite Buddha, Mespo or others. I would ask for kind reply’s.
Today I went to the Branch bank and I had just looked through June. Even the Hilton Anatole hit me twice for parking. Go figure.
So I wonder what troll of the past Larz in his new persona is.
It obviously has been reading for a bit because it has some knowledge of the people here. This new incarnation though is so much more fun. I enjoy being insulted by someone who has all the intellectual gravity of a six year old, not to mention the emotional maturity of a toddler. I would suggest that he stops playing with, before throwing his feces, it can be potentially unhealthy.
Mike, why don’t you back to giving helmet to buddhaspank. Mespo was blogging earlier and said you give better helmet than his sister.
Jack,
I’m glad you find yourself so amusing, I think you’re hilarious.
Jack don’t know ‘jack’
He’s just clogging up limited and precious turlee space.
Must be coming from an Internet cafe, n’est ce pas, Jacques?
Srsly, the nuts are out in force
man w/gun at Obama townhall:
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/11/protester-seen-with-gun-outside-obama-town-hall/
Unfortunately, this is a good reason why Prof. Turley should not announce his vacations until he returns from them, or leave V.T. Mike A. or Mespo in charge of security.
Well it appears that Jack is not the only one occupying space. I am offended that someone would utilize this space to state such asinine juvenile similes. But what can you expect when you have a self proclaimed “Original Turlee Blawger” doing the same? It would not surprise me that that was the very same person who shows such distane for others on the Blawg.
But then again, she who shrieks the loudest reminds me of a sister that I used to speak with. But the pocket on my suit got ripped and that has been it since.
Mike S., I am surprised that you would even lower yourself to respond to such remarks. They made about as much sense in 4th grade as they do now. We are just smarter than that now as we know we don’t have to laugh to fit in.
JT hasn’t ‘gone’ anywhere…
He’s here even more so than usual – on ‘vaca’…
We don’t need a patrol now or ever, FFLEO!
Get with the turlee program… ;P
LottaK,
Thank you for the story. Is this for real?
lottakatz:
“Srsly, the nuts are out in force”
In America we have the right to bear arms even if a president happens to be in town. So many Americans are afraid to even use their rights nowadays. It’s really sad. What do we have them for?
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, your exit is soon, I assure you, you are a twit. Take this garbage back to 3rd grade, when you are allowed to repeat the same, again, again and again.
Keep it up AY, you, a;lon gwith Buddha will soon see the door to the street – again…
You must be soooo proud…
lottakatz: Did you notice the man has an earpiece? I had to watch it twice, but the man with a gun has a clear winded earpiece, seems fishy.
donatella,
In America we have the right to bear arms even if a president happens to be in town. So many Americans are afraid to even use their rights nowadays. It’s really sad. What do we have them for?
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You may have that right, but I will assure you the Secret Service has other ideals in place for you. Whether it be, being shot or detained until they finish up the psychological profile on you. They are even so kind as to interview you friends, family, employers, your banks, credit card companies. Now, the question comes down to this, Do you wish to exercise this right?
For some strange reason you can carry a registered hand gun into a bar in Texas so long as you have a permit to carry. Do I want to be in a bar where drunks are being served alcohol beverages, that has a loaded hand gun. HELL NO. Easy enough for me.
I did have the experience to have a trained sniper take aim at me when George the First and Ronnie were in Austin at the same time. For some reason they took umbrage that we wanted to watch them from the roof of a building that was 5 stories tall and they were in the Hyatt 22 stories high. At that time I did not wish to die so I complied.
A.Y.,
IMO, I think there is something wrong with this story–it doesn’t hang together very well. We are seeing a pagent staged for us all so that we hopefully won’t realize there will be no real health care reform, only a good deal for the insurance/pharmaceutical industry.
Oh my spellin, spellin must have a inferior education. One whom proclaims such distane for errors on post for the same, should be ashamed. Fer Shame, Fer Shame, Fer Shame, What’d you say Sarge?
But then again he lives in Hawaii raising nuts. Maybe some made it to the upper east coast.
Jill 1, August 11, 2009 at 6:11 pm
A.Y.,
IMO, I think there is something wrong with this story–it doesn’t hang together very well. We are seeing a pagent staged for us all so that we hopefully won’t realize there will be no real health care reform, only a good deal for the insurance/pharmaceutical industry.
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Besides the Banks the Pharmaceutical companies own congress. The next is the Medical Profession. I say give it 10 years and the Health Care field will collapse as bad as the Auto Industry.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/11/chris-matthews-to-town-ha_n_256952.html
That link is provided for those who believe that the man with a gun story my be a pageant provided for our bewitchment.
Oh my, now it’s with threats again! Tsk, tsk, tsk. Keep stirring up crap and see how this works out for you, Ms. Edited Out More Often For Content Than Any Other Regular. Other than Bron, who is banned, you have that distinction, Patty. You earned that stat the old fashioned way too.
Yet we’re the likely ones to get censured or booted. Over you attack us. Uh huh.
Don’t forget I was one of the lucky ones who got to read your last nearly psychotic scree against Jill and AY before the Prof took it down. It either was or wasn’t one of your finer moments. Since it was removed, I am thinking it was approaching the not so fine.
Thanks for proving every time you post an attack, Princess, you only hurt yourself more. Good show.
Let me put it to you this way: You keep attacking regulars without provocation, against the express wishes of our host (let alone your chances of success) and then make no bones about the attacks being aimed solely at getting one or more of us banned or censured for your satisfying your personal vendetta in a space that is not your personal space to begin with no matter how much you think and act like it is.
That sums it up nicely.
Hmmm. But we’re going to get shown the door. Riiight.
Again, you should walk away. You fail to realize that you cannot win this battle not because of individual skill of the combatants, but because you attack from the weakest position possible. You are breaking the “one rule” here (as Vince puts it) and yet you seem to think the one’s you’ve attacked will be the ones punished. That’s some interesting logic and legal reasoning. I’ve never seen the Prof punish someone for defending themselves, either from regulars, guests or trolls. I have seen him punish people for repeatedly attacking regulars out of bounds of his requests for civility. Namely you. More than once.
Do you really think either AY or myself are the most likely to draw ire in this circumstance given you’ve done nothing today but foam at the mouth? Really? That’s weak pattern analysis from either a scientist or a lawyer.
I think also shows just exactly how much you respect our host and his stated wishes.
None.
I’ll be over here awaiting my banishment, Princess. In truth, he wouldn’t have to ban me should you convince him to do so. All he needs to do is ask me to leave. I’ll go and never post again.
Because unlike you, I respect our host’s wishes.
I have a suspicion that it’s going to be a long wait.
donatella: …”right … wired… ”
He has the right as verified by the local law enforcement. This is the second instance of a gun at a town hall. If he’s not Secret Service (I’d assume they would be more subtle if he’s undercover) then he IMO a fool even if he is exercising legal rights and political ‘speech’.
I object to the intimidation factor of being on the opposite side of an argument (or street with a sign) with someone that has not only a sign but a gun. If the fringe of the fringe are so emboldened as to carry a gun to a debate then I don’t see it being too long before someone from that fringe starts shooting. I like a little political theater as much as the next guy and if he was spied with a cooler full of whipped-cream pies I get a good laugh out of it. Pies are fun; guns kill people so I take a bit harder line about them.
http://www.pieman.org
“About pie-throwing and radical politics in the 60′s and present day America.”
When and why was Bron banned?
Buddha,
At first I thought I was in the twilight zone as I could read the dribble on my phone but when I got here to respond. Swoosh it was gone. I did not realize that the posts had been deleted. Oh well live and learn.
Patty C,
Was something directed at you? I think not, now paranoid will get you everything with me, don’t you know. To the best of my knowledge I have not been banned. Are you aware of something that I am not about being banned? Exactly what must I do to get banned.
If it is because the professor has commented on something I have said. I am not jockeying for Teacher Pet or Pest. You have gained that latter distinction all by your selfless wit or lack thereof.
I am guilty as charged. I do make mistakes and am willing to promptly admit my decencies. Can you say the same or do you bury them.
Bob,Esq. 1, August 11, 2009 at 7:14 pm
When and why was Bron banned?
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I do not know why or when. You can ask Miss Knowitall.
Bob,
Bron was banned for highjacking a regular’s ID. It was a while ago now, something like a couple of months. Well before all the Jim Byrne/Birther trollery started.
I’m sure Bron was banned because he stopped giving helmet to buddhaspank and Mike S. Bron loved to talk shit and when he got pulverized for the little punkass girlyman he is, he couldn’t handle it! In time, buddha will also be banned for being the quack intellectual “she” thinks “she” is. Her arrogance and stupidity open her up for all kinds of shit! That’s buddhaspank for ya, all mentally ill and nowhere to go……..
And by Bron we mean Bron98?
Seems weird.
Hey Wayne,
I’ll vouch for Buddha’s analytical skills.
After all, I do despise sloppy thinking.
Wayne,
I’m sure Bron was banned because he stopped giving . . . . will also be banned for being the quack intellectual “she” thinks “she” is. Her arrogance and stupidity open her up for all kinds of shit! That’s buddhaspank for ya, all mentally ill and nowhere to go……..
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This sure reeks like a unnamed Original Turlee Blawger. Just surprised that my name did not come into play.
Bob, (rhymes with knob), you don’t have to vouch for your girlfriend (buddhaspank) just because she swaps spit with you!
Buddha(pest), is living proof that not all lobotomized people wind up in a mental institution. Some wind up on the Jonathan “Turdley” law blog.
Bob,
Yes, it was weird. But Bron got involved in one of the many Jill/Patty wars and made a tactical error in impersonating Patty. The Prof banned him, allowed him back on only to apologize and then Bron abides the ban except when he slipped in recently from an internet cafe to wish me his condolences.
AY,
“This sure reeks like a unnamed Original Turlee Blawger. Just surprised that my name did not come into play.”
Ya reckon? That might actually be psycho boy Wayne though. He pops up from time to time, usually with some kind of homophobic or Pro-RCC weirdness. If so, he’s truly a dangerous lunatic and merits watching. He’s funny.
I so love to hack on you buddha(pest)! I am Wayne or any other sobriquet you wish me to be. You have been punked and exposed by so many bloggers on this site it is beyond amusing. You and your tragic little band of pseudo-intellectuals are easy pickins’ for a true intellectual like me. I love to watch you squirm and get defensive as you cower under “turdley’s” skirt. When you grow up and finish getting your GED at night school, you just might get to play with the “big boys”………
lol
See what I mean?
Isn’t he just precious?
And hate me? Uh, just a little. Oh yeah, this sounds like Psycho Boy. Welcome back, Wayne. Nice to see they let you off of that 5150 hold and back to your computer.
Wayne,
Or whomever, you are a Medical Doctor as well and you like on the east coast with your partner of 15 years?
Hate is not a word in my repertoire buddha(pest). I just love to log on periodically to mess with you…. you are so easy, I love to press your buttons. I amuse myself from time to time reading the rubbish you post on this marxist blog. I especially enjoyed reading the archived posts on the Catholic Church from a few months ago. That ‘apologist’ blew you and every other joker on this blog out of the water. His writing was not only cogent and fused together in a brilliant manner, but the contents of it were quite compelling. Needless to say he wiped the mat with you and Mike Spindell and some of the other internet vampires that congest this worthless pseudo-law blog. Pleasant dreams buddhaspank…….
By the way buddhaspank, make sure you take your thorazine and klonopin before you go to bed tonight. I would hate to find out that you were picked up again for running naked in the streets like last time, when you thought you were “turning japanese”…
It will be a rude awaking when one gets arrested for Walking Naked in the Ritz Carlton in Jail. Old Adage of a Drunk
Wayne, your contribution on this thread has been nothing but vitriol and distraction; is your life so bereft of entertainment and stimulation that you are reduced to this?
“I just love to log on periodically to mess with you” = Weak dude, weak.
I’m bored so I logged on to hack on buddha(pest). Is that so terrible? By the way, what is ‘lottakatz” all about? I don’t do this every day, it’s a guilty pleasure, like when you ladys nibble on a cherry cordial, all the while knowing it is gonna cost you three more laps around the block. Can you feel me now “lottakatz”?
My sexy wife is making rolled tacos for dinner…. Yum! For desert I think I will feast on her gorgeous, silky, tanned body. I so love being married to a gorgeous, mouthwatering latina. Not only that she is a killer cook. Ciao……….
Wayne 1, August 11, 2009 at 9:02 pm
My sexy wife is making rolled tacos for dinner…. Yum! For desert I think I will feast on her gorgeous, silky, tanned body. I so love being married to a gorgeous, mouthwatering latina. Not only that she is a killer cook. Ciao……….
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So was Lorena Bobbitt, then she decided to serve slice and a hotdog.
I like the etymology of first names because parents seem to know instinctively how their kids will turn out. For example, the name “Wayne” derives from the Old English word “waegn” and refers to a wagon maker. Now far be it from me to criticize the monumental intellect of our own “Wayne” here, but I have to guess he is a maker of sh*t wagons judging by his potty mouth and even smellier opinions and conclusions.
Lotta,
It’s really pretty funny. In both the “ha ha” and the “straight jacket” senses of the word. It’s the same thing every time. The funniest part is the “hacking” he so enjoys, he seems to think I take it seriously or it has some effect other than making him look like a whack job.
Are you familiar with The Far Side? This is what I hear in Wayne’s posts, “blah blah blah Ginger blah blah Ginger blah blah Bad Ginger blah blah blah”. It makes me giggle.
LindyLou, lottakatz:
I keep myself happily amused some nights making my dog yawn(simple things for simple people)
Buddha Is Laughing:
that Far Side cartoon is one of the all time best, nice analogy
BIL, The Far Side was always one of my favorite comics. At the very end of the FS and before Boondocks he did another strip- it was a sort of a Far Side follow-up because it used characters from the FS but was a much, much darker and sureal vision. It was not ‘funny’ funny at all. A door literally opened from a Far Side landscape (as I recall) and a little girl (African American as I recall) followed the stairs down and wound up in a different world. The comic strips thereafter were set in that world. She may have been taking another FS character to her ‘home’.
It ran for a very short time in my local daily paper then Larson quit entirely until Boondocks. I don’t know the name of that segue into retirement from DS and can’t find a reference to it. (Not even in the Wikipedia!!) It ran under a name other than ‘The Far Side’ though and I really liked it. Is any of this familiar to you as a Larson fan or did I just dream that this happened?
lottakatz :
that sounds like Berke Breathed’s comic strip after he retired Bloom County
C.Everett Kook: dog yawning
I have a vocal cat- sometimes I just wile away my time mirroring the cats inflection with my meowing replies to him to see which one of us gets bored and quits first.
C.Everett, we are having ‘staring contests’ with our critters… Awesome!
The man given 6 months in the big house was not just yawning, he was yawning while black which is a much more serious crime.
C.Everett Kook: that sounds like Berke Breathed’s comic strip after he retired Bloom County
(Delighted screech) AACK, OF COURSE IT WAS!! Bill the Cat and Opus and the whole gang laying naked in the Perriwinkle patch or sitting on the mens couch in their underware… Thank you.
As Dan Quayle so correctly observed, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind” LOL
The best way to deal with a troll is to ignore him/her/it. “Don’t feed the trolls” is good advice. Trolls like all people who post on blogs want others to notice what they say and are rewarded and encouraged by responses, if only everyone would ignore them they would give up and go elsewhere.
I love to read all of your self-serving juvenile posts. It reminds me of a bunch of old ladies sitting in a musty room gossiping about the beautiful young lady who just moved into town. Talk about “LAW”, don’t talk about the “troll” who gets your goat! Don’t feed into it, you are all to predictable and easy. I love to mess with a bunch of dorks who sit in front of a computer all night blogging and text messaging each other. You dorks give me a barrels worth of entertainment! Buddhapest is my personal favorite, he is in the upper bracket of braindead sycophant!
The trolls are multiplying. Whatever your name is now, it is time to go home because your birther club meeting is about to start. If you are going to be a pain in the backside, so be it, but leave your filthy mouth out of it.
Lotta,
The name of the strip you are thinking of is Outland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outland_(comics)
Rafflaw(?), why don’t you go play on the freeway, preferably with a bag over your shrunken head. You savvy, cockroach?
Still reading comic books, eh buddhaspank!
Mike Spindell: Watch the first video LK posted and notice his ear piece. This is a BS sensationalist story.
Well somebody smacked down buddha. Gotta love it!
donatella, Chris Matthews interviewed the man this evening on his show He claims to be a Ron Paul voter and is fairly well spoken. Hee did have an earpiece as you noted but that doesn’t necessarily mean that he is a plant of some sort. What do you think is going on? In who’s employ do you think he is, if any ones?
BIL, I followed your link, thanks. I think my newspaper dropped the strip because I don’t recall the run being anywhere near as long as indicated. It had a very short run as I recall and the end as stated in your link is a total surprise. WoW!
My city paper put Doonesbury on the editorial page very early on. They actually censored it by dropping certain daily installments and were thinking about dropping it entirely but got a lot of letters condemning their position so they moved it from the comics page to editorial. They started polling their readers on the popularity of their comics and dropped a lot of the comics I liked (while retaining things like ‘Hi and Lois’) as the tone of the paper became more conservative. I just stopped even looking at the comics page well before I canceled the subscription.
Can the person with the Sleep Apnea ask a trial by a Jury?
How can a judge imprison by a spur of a moment a person?
Where is the ACLU???
Where is the Constitution???
Where are its protectors???
This judge should be impeached!
Smacked down?
roflmao
Hello, Kitty!
I’m betting you don’t get out of the house much.
“Mike Spindell: Watch the first video LK posted and notice his ear piece. This is a BS sensationalist story.”
Donatella,
Watch the man himself being interviewed by Chris Matthews in the link I posted. Wishing doesn’t make something true. Do you really think with the incredible rise in death threats to President Obama, they would do this as a publicity stunt? That seems like a fairy tale. You may not like this Administration but I’m sure you wouldn’t want it to end the way JFK’s did. As
things are now going that is my fear. Having lived through the 60′s and the various killings, more than just JFK, RFK and MLK and loving my country, I wouldn’t want to see that again. As for the earpiece, I even have bluetooth and I can barely figure out how to operate my cell phone.
I’ve appeared in Rozak’s court, and he’s an imperious ass-wad.
UPDATE:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/13/us/AP-US-ODD-Jailed-for-Yawning.html?_r=1
Mr. Williams is a free man.
BIL,
Thank you.Now that Buddha(spank) was funny. Whoever the heck that is.