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christina lanza and her friend danielle lott just spent the night in the jail s intake unit after being arrested and charged for contempt of court after a series of outbursts after lanza s boyfriend deandre kelley was sentenced to six years for the accidental shooting death of their 11-year-old daughter. how was last night for you? kind of rough. i haven t slept. i don t like it. they treat you like animals in here. and i would never come back here. people that don t come in here very often are usually surprised that they have to sleep on the floor, sit on the floor. you know, be in a holding tank opposed to being in an actual cell. we don t have the space for the amount of inmates that come through here on a daily basis. there is just not enough room for them to have a bed. we re being charged for real. i know. i know.
when i came back to the cell after i heard that, i was like wow. just staring out the window thinking like, man, this ain t good. and i was so emotional i didn t really want to talk to nobody. i really just wanted to close my door and stay in here by myself. you ain t supposed to cry in jail. you ain t trying to be crying in front of no other men. kelley wasn t the only one overcome with emotion after the sentencing. his girlfriend, shanti s mother christina lanza, and friends and family were in the courtroom and made their displeasure known. i allowed the defendant s family to speak on his behalf but they were very disruptive during that process. i imposed the sentence. and on the way out i told them specifically that if you scream one more time, if you shout one more time, i m going to find you in contempt. and as they were going out the door got into the hallway they were screaming at the top of their lungs.
i know. it s going to be all right. i m ready to go home to our kids and finish grieving. we didn t even finish grieving. i slept on the floor. a hard floor. no covers, no nothing. treated like a dog. and i ve never been through this. they now return to judge nadine allen s courtroom where they will have the opportunity to apologize for their actions or be sentenced to as many as 30 days in jail. under the higher revised code 2705 for misbehavior in the presence of or so near the court, at this time i do find that they were screaming in the hallway and in the courtroom after i advised them specifically that if they said one more word, shouted one more time, screamed one more time, disrupted the court one more time i would find them in contempt. but i would like to give you two the opportunity to speak and tell me why you should not be punished further than you have been. i ll start with christina lanza.
there she go. she in jail, i m in jail. that ain t no good thing. were you angry at deandre when this happened? i was very angry when it first happened. it took me a while. but i know deep down in my heart he did not mean to do it. and i was outside. he did not mean to kill our baby. it was a total accident. when somebody shoots a gun on purpose he did not accidentally shoot the weapon. he deliberately shot that gun into what they claim is the air. but when you are in a residential neighborhood, that bullet could very likely end up in a house, as it did here, and killed his own daughter. did he intend to? no. but it was not an accidental shooting. it was a deliberate shooting. not only was he drunk but he was under court order not to even possess or own a gun. though lanza believes he