A Detroit judge on Tuesday forced a local teen visiting court on a field trip to don a jail uniform and handcuffs before subjecting her to the threat of jail time during an impromptu hearing before her peers and those watching the judge’s courtroom online.
Her offense − sleeping in his courtroom and her “attitude.”
36th District Judge Kenneth King threatened the 16-year-old with jail for “contempt of court,” despite her sleeping in between the hearings, according to video on the court’s YouTube channel. He repeatedly suggested she might need to spend some time behind bars, at one point describing graphic scenes and violence that could happen if she went to juvenile detention.
She was ultimately allowed to go home, but not before King…
