Friday, September 24, 2010

Lindsay Lohan in custody

The USA needs more no-nonsense judges like Judge Elden Fox, who threw Lindsay Lohan in the slammer today for failing two drug tests. According to news reports, he didn't even waste time listening to arguments by her attorneys.

She failed her drug tests. She knew the consequences. The judge locked her up. She's paying the price.

If she sits in jail for 30 days, think she'll fail her next drug tests?

She might, if she doesn't get some real help.

What if we had judges like that around here? What if they said what they meant and they meant what they said.

And the same with parents. And with teachers.
There was a jury trial that was supposed to start in McHenry County a couple of weeks ago. The kid lied to the judge and said he had to go to work. Only he didn't go to work; he wasn't working that day. He got away with it (that day), because the judge believed what the kid told him. Judges expect defendants (and everyone) to tell the truth. I suspect the judge won't be too happy with the kid, when the trial starts this next week.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

what does this have to do with Woodstock?

Gus said...

Good question, Hans.

It has to do with a no-nonsense judge in California who doesn't mess around with arguments and objections from lawyers.

It's an under-handed comment on court procedures in McHenry County that result in continuance after continuance for months, sometimes years, with no meaningful legal work in-between.

Court dockets could clear up in McHenry County, if judges set specific action by attorneys between court dates and then held the attorneys accountable for those actions.

yagottabekidding said...

California and no-nonsense. Now theres an oxymoron. By the way Lohan is out on bail...until the next time.