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U.S. judge in trouble

United States judge Robert Restaino was hearing a session of domestic violence offenders in a court in Niagara Falls City in upstate New York when proceedings were interrupted by the rings of a cell phone. “Everyone is going to jail, every single person is going to jail in this courtroom unless I get that instrument now,” he bellowed at the court. When each in turn said they had no idea, he sent each in turn to jail. All 46 of them. The judge cooled off and later that afternoon released all 46. The commission ruled that he should be removed from his $114,000 job for “an egregious and unprecedented abuse of judicial power.” Judge Restaino now has 30 days to appeal. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2007

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