When I still lived in NI, there was a running news story about a bloke who refused to stand for the magistrate. Under the law, the maximum sentence for contempt is 28 days. On day 28, you go back to court and are given a chance to apologize. Failure to do so gets you another 28 days. And so on and so on.
He wound up doing eight and a half months for being an idiot.
Boru
He wound up doing eight and a half months for being an idiot.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
