Man Sentenced to 10 Days in Jail Per Word After Threatening Judge
After threatening to kill a criminal court judge, Joshua Beadle was held in contempt and ordered to serve 10 days in jail for every word after the judge ordered the man to stop with the threatening comments. The judge stopped counting at 70, which results in Beadle serving 700 days in jail.
That is not all to the story either. Beadle had to wear a special spit mask at the hearing on Monday because in January he spit at the judge. He missed the judge and hit a clerk’s computer. Beadle did, however, apologize to the clerk and said that his target was the judge.
Beadle was in court to face rape and burglary charges. More info on this story can be found at CommercialAppeal.com.
3 Responses to “Man Sentenced to 10 Days in Jail Per Word After Threatening Judge”
By Mo on Jun 24, 2008 | Reply
This judge should talk to the judge in the post previous to this one. We should send Beadle to Mexico.
By Claude Gelinas on Jul 4, 2008 | Reply
This kind of situation should automatically be reviewed by another judge because the judge’s emotions might’ve played a significant role in expanding the prison sentence.
Then again, Joshua Beadle appears to fit the profile of “the guy who had it coming” so perhaps that was the only way to talk some sense into him.
It’s hard to say, we weren’t there…