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College Student Learns Consequences of Ignoring a Federal Judge, the Hard Way

By Bruce Carton

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You are a 19-year-old college freshman. You are instructed to appear in court to be on a panel of 60 potential jurors in a health care fraud case but, I mean, damn -- you don't have time for that nonsense! So when the date rolls around for jury selection you fail to post. When the jury clerk calls you to find out where you are, you claim a flat tire. When they clerk offers to come pick you up, you reply that you want to go to class and you are not coming to court. And when clerks call you back again to say the judge himself now wants you to appear in court the next day, Tuesday, to explain yourself, you respond rudely and hang up on them. Stupid clerks -- quit calling me! Well, welcome to the real world, Kelsey Gloston, and the consequences of infuriating a federal court judge. The Houston Chronicle reports that on the Tuesday the judge's clerk had demanded her presence (before being hung up on), Gloston unexpectedly found herself rounded up by federal marshals and "stood in ankle and wrist restraints in court Tuesday afternoon wearing flip flops, a tight white T-shirt, short-shorts...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on April 29, 2010 (boomark / email).