A northeastern Pennsylvania couple have been cited for contempt of court for sending back a jury questionnaire filled with profanity, crude language and racial slurs.  

A Lackawanna County judge cited 25-year-old Tina Keller and 23-year-old Drayke Jacobs-Van-Tol. That landed the Taylor, Pennsylvania couple a court date. Judge Vito Geroulo dismissed the contempt citation but warned that the pair could have spent up to six months in jail for what he called the most “intentionally disrespectful” jury form he’d ever seen.

Keller said she let her fiancée fill out her summons and she didn’t look it over before sending it in. Both of them apologized to the judge.

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I’ll Be the Judge of That

A Kentucky judge might have been fooled once, but not twice.

The State Journal in Frankfort reports that Franklin District Judge Kathy Mangeot originally fined Gary Thompson $100 and waived court costs when he was arraigned one morning in a trespassing case. She said in a later hearing that he used a “fake voice” designed to gain sympathy.

After the arraignment, Mangeot says she searched Thompson’s name on the Internet and found news coverage in which he told Lexington TV stations last year that he faked having a disability while panhandling.

Mangeot ordered him hauled back into court and told him several times not to speak during the proceeding. She called him a “con artist,” told him to pay court costs and increased his fine.

“I also understand based on the interviews that I watched you speak in, that when you wish to speak in a clear, understandable voice, you do so,” Mangeot said. “The voice you used with me this morning was a voice that I feel certain you were trying to garner sympathy from this court by indicating that you maybe had a mental condition that did not permit you to speak clearly.”

She also warned that he would be held in contempt of court if he trespassed on the property in question again and jailed.

WLEX-TV in Lexington reported that Thompson said he used to be a millionaire. He told the station he got a $2.4 million settlement in 1993 over a motorcycle crash, but he blew it all.