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To: Pat W. who wrote (6130)	7/13/1998 8:43:00 AM
From: Henry Volquardsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

not quite a joke but I didn't know where else to post this 14:21 Man zapped with 50,000 volts for talking in court LOS ANGELES, July 9 (Reuters) - All he did was talk too much, but that was enough for a judge in Los Angeles to order a defendant zapped with a 50,000-volt jolt of electricity, it was reported on Thursday. The Los Angeles Times said it was the first activation ever in Los Angeles of a prisoner's electronic security belt. Ronald Hawkins, defending himself at a sentencing hearing, continually interrupted municipal Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani and so she ordered the bailiff to use his remote control to administer an eight-second electric shock, the paper said. ......... According to court transcripts the judge warned Hawkins she would have him zapped. "You are wearing a very bad instrument, and if you want to feel it, you can, but stop interrupting me," she said. "You are going to electrocute me for talking?" Hawkins asked. "No sir, but they will zap you if you keep doing it," the judge replied. After Hawkins had interrupted Comparet-Cassani twice more, the judge told him: "One more time, one more time, go ahead." "That is unconstitutional," Hawkins replied before the judge ordered he receive the full 50,000-volt force of the law.