Girl Gets Locked Up For Saying LOL on Facebook
 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technolo...011823460.html

Am I missing something here? Did I read the article wrong or something? This girl got 2 days in jail for simply writing her opinion about her DUI crime online? I never knew it was illegal to say "My dumbass got a DUI and hit a car LOL," what law is there against that? Thought the 1st Amendment guaranteed us the right to freedom of speech and expression?

Lots of old, out of touch idiots sitting on the bench.

It's called "contempt of court". She refused to follow a court order passed down by a judge and was held in contempt of court. Done.

Good for the bitch.

What if you laugh out loud in the court when hearing your sentence? Would that be freedom of speech or would that be in contempt of court?

What was the court order? To take down her facebook? What right do they have to tell her to take down her facebook for simply stating her opinion?

2 days , a time for some girls to lick her :D

Contempt of court, not for LOL. Once you're in the court system you're pretty well fucked so best to just play along and get the hell out as fast as you can. She'll learn

I'm definitely missing something here... what was the court order that she did not obey? After she got done with her DUI trial the judge told her she isn't allowed to say anything about it on Facebook, or what?

The girl is obviously stupid, but the judge needs to be reminded of her right to free speech.

Do you find drunk driving funny?
This dumb cunt laughed it off and got what she deserved!

exactly! I love how headlines get twisted.
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Because she's on probation. Let me explain probation to you real quick. In America, when you commit a crime you go to jail. Some lucky people can convince the court to not put them in jail, and instead get probation. Probation means "We're being EXTREMELY nice and not letting you sit in a jail cell. But you have some rules to follow while you're out there".

People seem to think probation is punishment. No, probation is someone getting to do their sentence outside of a jail cell with very strict circumstances.

Also, while in jail and on probation. You do not have all your normal rights. Just like a prisoner doesn't "have the right to facebook", if the judge decides you aren't keeping up the morals he would like you to while on probation and wants your facebook page removed for the remainder. You do it, or you go to jail. That's how probation works. If she didn't want to be on probation and live by the judge's rules, then she could have just sat her happy ass in jail from the beginning.

Fucking GFY. I swear is filled with morons.

She would have been smart to simply deactivate it and then reactivate it later. But she doesnt seem very smart to begin with. They should burn people at the stake for getting a DUI.

I can't lie I lol'd

All your post is good, just I did not understand this part. So YES probation is punishment. Why do you say it is not and then explain that it is (doing time just not in jail, strict circumstances etc)

Glad to hear the judge didn't stand for her bullshit flippant attitude. A DUI is bad enough, but then to laugh about it publicly on FB...that's beyond moronic.

I don't know if they still do it, but in China they would take the DUI offender down into the ditch and execute them on the spot. Then they would leave the body and call a family member to go get it.

To answer your questions:

a. Yes.

b. It appears you didn't read the article at all and just read a headline for a non-story which was obviously crafted to appeal to those who don't read articles.

Hopefully this experience slapped some sense into that arrogant 18 year old dunce.

lots of idiot judges out there :2 cents::2 cents:

:2 cents:

Probation isn't punishment. Probation is a reduction of the crime you are serving time for. It's getting the chance to be leniently treated with restrictions vs sitting in jail.

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Exactly. Your punishment is still jail. Probation just let's out "out of jail" so long as you adhere to some very strict rules. You disobey those rules, you return to jail.

what a stupid bitch

i would have given her 5 in the gulag

Went to jail for posting LOL? That's not faur:winkwink:

Apparently reading is not your strength, try reading slowly, or let Rochard explain it to you.

I just read the article again, and I don't see anything mentioned about probation. I haven't been arrested for DUI before like most of you so I don't know how that process works.

All I know here is the article says "Asher was cited by police for driving under the influence" and then after that she was told by the judge to shut down her Facebook page and when she refused she was held in contempt of court.

Apparently when you're on probation for a DUI you are not allowed to speak about it online. This I did not know.

Welcome to China.

Geez, when I was young I used to laugh when I got nervous (ie. was getting in shit from a teacher / principle). Was just a reaction that I couldn't help. Got me in quite a bit of shit too. :)

Looks like I would have gotten jail time in the US for it though. Geez...

You can speak about it online and being on probation or not being on probation does not have much if anything to do with it. What you cannot do is defy an order by a judge unless you are willing to pay a consequence for doing so.

In this case, to me, the judge was out of line. Clearly he didn't like what this person wrote and was pissed off about it. I can understand that because I actually feel the same way when I read that someone laughs off a DUI. But that is your freedom of speech. This person didn't do it in court or to the judges face. They made no disparaging remarks about the court or anyone other than themselves. Sorry, but a judge can't just take away your constitutional rights just because they don't like what you are saying.

Just curious where you are getting that she is on probation. The article says nothing about that. It says she was cited for DUI. It doesn't even say if she was convicted or not. Just getting sited for DUI does not put you on probation you have to be cited, go to trial, lose and receive probation as a punishment. None of this is stated in the article. Do you know something the rest of us don't?

Maybe the judge was out of line and maybe he wasn't. There have been many cases where judges have...for whatever there reasons...ordered people to not access the internet at all...let alone kill a site/account.

There is a saying among attorneys that the law is what the judge says the law is...so yes...a judge can take away what you may consider to be your constitutional right. That is the reason why they have multiple appeal courts...with the Federal Supreme Court being the ultimate appeal Court.

One can appeal a judge's decision/order (which is usually very expensive to do) but in the meantime one has to comply with the decision/order...unless one can obtain an injunction against the order while you appeal the decision/order.

Lol .

Serves the cunt right.

she actually got locked up for admitting to a DUI and the judge did not find it humorous that she was "laughing" about getting one.

imagine killing someone and then while your defense is arguing a case about you not really meaning it, you started laughing out loud in the court room... no one would have sympathy for you and nor should the judge for this whore :2 cents:

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Apparently when you're on probation for a DUI you are not allowed to speak about it online. This I did not know.[/QUOTE]

BEFORE you are being sentenced, you shouldn't be an unrepentant twat with a dismissive attitude about your actions and behavior which cause's 1000s of deaths of innocent people each year. I seriously doubt her facebook page was the deciding factor as she also had to appear in court. My guess, considering the fact that this world is now full of narcissistic, "me me me me me" dip shits is that she was probably late for court, didn't appear, was dressed like a whore, was disrespectful and so on and so forth drawing the ire of the court.

We all understand that you "hate the man" and think everything is about some bizarre prison state which exists in your own mind, but i'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the judge has better information about the case and the defendant than you do. BTW... you also seem to have a very poor or at least limited understanding of "Judge" and what a judges function is.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh ...

It is never good to piss off people that can decide your life.