kybillsfan
November 28th, 2007, 12:28:47 PM
This only took two years to straighten out, gov works pretty fast dont they. Was this a big story in the Niagra falls Buffalo area? Should this judge have been jailed?
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/071127/K112715AU.html
Niagara Falls, N.Y. judge ousted for jailing people for ringing cellphone
Published: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 | 11:41 PM ET
Canadian Press: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - A judge who jailed 46 people who were in his courtroom when a cellphone call interrupted proceedings was removed from the bench Tuesday by a state commission.
Niagara Falls City Court Judge Robert Restaino "snapped" and "engaged in what can only be described as two hours of inexplicable madness" during the March 2005 session, Raoul Felder, chairman of the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, wrote in the decision to remove Restaino from the $113,900-a-year post.
A phone rang while Restaino was hearing the cases of domestic violence offenders who had been ordered to appear weekly to update the judge on the progress of their counselling. A sign in the courthouse warns cellphones and pagers must be turned off.
"Everyone is going to jail," Restaino said.
"Every single person is going to jail in this courtroom, unless I get that instrument now. If anybody believes I'm kidding, ask some of the folks that have been here for a while."
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/071127/K112715AU.html
Niagara Falls, N.Y. judge ousted for jailing people for ringing cellphone
Published: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 | 11:41 PM ET
Canadian Press: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - A judge who jailed 46 people who were in his courtroom when a cellphone call interrupted proceedings was removed from the bench Tuesday by a state commission.
Niagara Falls City Court Judge Robert Restaino "snapped" and "engaged in what can only be described as two hours of inexplicable madness" during the March 2005 session, Raoul Felder, chairman of the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, wrote in the decision to remove Restaino from the $113,900-a-year post.
A phone rang while Restaino was hearing the cases of domestic violence offenders who had been ordered to appear weekly to update the judge on the progress of their counselling. A sign in the courthouse warns cellphones and pagers must be turned off.
"Everyone is going to jail," Restaino said.
"Every single person is going to jail in this courtroom, unless I get that instrument now. If anybody believes I'm kidding, ask some of the folks that have been here for a while."