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TexasTowelie

(118,651 posts)
Wed Dec 16, 2020, 11:16 AM Dec 2020

Pa. man who called judge a 'dumb (expletive)' can't beat prison term for contempt conviction [View all]

Dropping the F-bomb during a court hearing is never a good idea.

Neither is calling the judge a “dumb (expletive) b***h.”

Rashad Heard did both of those things, and considerably more, during his court hearing.

A state Superior Court panel has decided the 31-year-old Philadelphia man richly deserves the 6-month prison term he received in return after the robed target of his abuse found him in contempt.

As President Judge Emeritus Correale F. Stevens noted in the state court’s opinion, Heard’s outbursts occurred during his March 2019 preliminary hearing before Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Wendy L. Pew on a murder charge.

Read more: https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/12/pa-man-who-called-judge-a-dumb-expletive-bitch-cant-beat-prison-term-for-contempt-conviction.html

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