‘Did You Say ‘F**k Me?’ Judge Sentences Florida Teen To 30 Days In Jail For Cursing At Him

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250. When a young person is in a serious situation and in the

presence of someone with a lot of authority who can cause them real problems, to giggle and smirk as though it's all a big game is disrespectful. Besides, I suspect the reason he asked whether she had used drugs recently was precisely because she was acting as though she was high as a kite right then.

If you want to get out easily on a drug charge, you don't act as though you are on drugs right there in front of the judge. That's begging for trouble. Then, when she got the predictable trouble she had been begging for, she turned around and really stepped in it.

The judge told the complaining lawyer to cover the contempt charge. He will talk to the girl and probably get her to politely apologize, and then probably the judge will drop the contempt case--and perhaps even lower the bail again if he thinks her apology is reasonably sincere.