Judge Qiana Lillard was about to sentence on Amanda Kosal for killing 31-year-old Jerome Zirker in June 2016. She was driving under the influence at the time. But while the court was trying to do it’s work, a man and a woman were laughing. This pissed the judge off and she threw the man out of the courtroom. She then called on the woman who sneered at her. That was the final straw for Judge Lillard, who immediately sentenced her to 93 days in jail for contempt of court.
“It’s time for him to go. And I don’t know who he is, but whoever can sit here at a tragic moment like this and laugh and smile when somebody has lost a family member … in the entire time that Mr. Zirker’s sister was speaking that clown, and that’s what I am going to call him, a clown, was sitting there smiling and laughing,” she said.
But Lillard was not done. She immediately called out the other disrespectful laughing hyena and commanded her to leave as well.
“And you can go, too. Because if you don’t know how to act, you can go to jail. So leave. Anybody that can sit there and laugh and smirk — take her, she’s going in the back — anybody else wanna go? You can go, too. This is a court of law,” she said, WDIV reported.
“And these are very serious matters. I understand that you all are very upset because your loved one is going to prison but guess what, she’s going to prison for the choices that she made. These people are here grieving, saddened because a senseless act took away their loved one and you’re sitting here acting like it’s a joke?”
While she left the courtroom, the laughing woman smirked at the judge. At that final act of disrespect, Judge Lillard sentenced the rude person to 93 days in prison.
“Your disruptive and disrespectful behavior disrupted today’s proceedings and you, ma’am, are going to the Wayne County Jail for 93 days,” she said