Dissing da Judge

Daniel Baldwin skipped a court appearance last Friday, and a Superior Court judge in L.A. issued a no-bail bench warrant. What should happen next?

When his plane from Canada lands in L.A., the cops should be at the airport to pick him up. None of this, his attorney “will take him to court” nonsense. He claims he was in Canada making a movie and let his probation officer know on Thursday that he “couldn’t make it.” I’ll have to remember that one, next time I have a date in court.

Baldwin’s responsibility was to be in court, not call his probation officer the day before.

If the judge throws him in the slammer for 30 days, perhaps Baldwin (and others) will get the message that, when a judge tells you to be in court on a certain day at a certain time, then you’d better be there or be in the hospital or in the morgue.

I wonder if this will work when he gets to court. “Gosh, your honor, I was just trying to make a living so I could continue my rehab, and I forgot I was to be in court until the day before.” Yeah, sure.

Baldwin got busted last year for possessing cocaine and drug paraphernalia, according to an article in today’s Northwest Herald. He was supposed to be in court to report on his drug rehabilitation. Just a minor detail, don’t you know?