Ohio Court Says Judge Cannot Add Years to a Prison Sentence Because the Defendant Called Him Names
You can’t make this stuff up. This case highlights one aspect of the injustice found in our criminal "justice" system. Criminal defendants have a right to curse at judges without getting years tacked on to their prison sentences. That seems like it should go without saying, right? But somehow the matter went all the way to the Ohio state Supreme Court after an appeals court upheld a trial judge's decision to add six years to a man's sentence for calling the trial judge names.