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TexasTowelie

(116,601 posts)
Wed Dec 16, 2020, 11:16 AM Dec 2020

Pa. man who called judge a 'dumb (expletive)' can't beat prison term for contempt conviction

Dropping the F-bomb during a court hearing is never a good idea.

Neither is calling the judge a “dumb (expletive) b***h.”

Rashad Heard did both of those things, and considerably more, during his court hearing.

A state Superior Court panel has decided the 31-year-old Philadelphia man richly deserves the 6-month prison term he received in return after the robed target of his abuse found him in contempt.

As President Judge Emeritus Correale F. Stevens noted in the state court’s opinion, Heard’s outbursts occurred during his March 2019 preliminary hearing before Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Wendy L. Pew on a murder charge.

Read more: https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/12/pa-man-who-called-judge-a-dumb-expletive-bitch-cant-beat-prison-term-for-contempt-conviction.html

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Pa. man who called judge a 'dumb (expletive)' can't beat prison term for contempt conviction (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2020 OP
The murder trial should be fun-- he shot a guy during a drug deal. TreasonousBastard Dec 2020 #1
He deserves it. CatMor Dec 2020 #2
But that doesn't resolve the underlying question --- whether, or not, the judge is a 3Hotdogs Dec 2020 #3
Ya know truth is an absolute defense against slander. Manifestor_of_Light Dec 2020 #4
Yes your honor twodogsbarking Dec 2020 #5

3Hotdogs

(13,375 posts)
3. But that doesn't resolve the underlying question --- whether, or not, the judge is a
Wed Dec 16, 2020, 04:02 PM
Dec 2020

dumb (expletive) b***h.





(Also, did I use the Oxford comma correctly?)

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
4. Ya know truth is an absolute defense against slander.
Wed Dec 16, 2020, 06:07 PM
Dec 2020

Years ago I was a court reporter in a rich guy's divorce. He dragged the trial out for six weeks and eventually refused to post a bond to cover the costs of the trial transcript, so the court reporters stopped his appeal. That meant we were evil and "practicing law without a license". Uh, no, you idiot. We are protecting ourselves from your cheapness.

He decided to represent himself. He was a heart surgeon and completely nuts. Donn Fullenweider, partner of famed criminal defense attorney Racehorse Haynes, got rich people divorces. He was representing the wife.

Allegedly, Mr. Fullenweider called the husband a son of a bitch, in court, under his breath, at counsel table, and the guy heard it. However, I would say that if the Petitioner was indeed a son of a bitch, then that would not be slander.

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