Judge finds silencing unruly sex offender much easier during Covid-19
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
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Syracuse, NY -- Amidst all of the difficulties that the pandemic has caused the courts, a judge discovered Thursday that there’s one benefit in having an unruly inmate in a virtual courtroom.
When Judge Thomas J. Miller got tired listening to sex offender Pierre Jones rant, he simply ordered that deputies turn off the defendant’s microphone.
In a move usually reserved for schoolteachers and bosses, the judge pulled the proverbial plug on Jones five minutes into a rambling, screaming diatribe directed at the judge and others.