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🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Some things you never even thought could be illegal can get you slapped with a life sentence! Let’s open our casebook and find out how that’s possible, as we explore some of the harshest punishments doled out for the smallest of crimes!
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0:00.0 | We all know the world can be a very unfair place, but for some people, life can be downright unjust. |
0:07.0 | I'm talking about the people sent to jail just for charging their phones, find hundreds of dollars for feeding their families, and incarcerated for sending friend requests. |
0:18.0 | That's right, some things you never even thought could be illegal can get you |
0:22.6 | slapped with a life sentence. Let's open our casebook and find out how that's possible, as we |
0:29.6 | explore some of the harshest punishments doled out for the smallest of crimes. |
0:36.4 | You're listening. You're listening. You're listening. |
0:38.3 | You're listening. |
0:39.3 | You're listening. |
0:40.3 | You're be amazed. |
0:41.3 | But there's nothing worse than when your phone starts ringing at the worst possible time. |
0:50.3 | Usually, when that happens, the embarrassment is all you have to deal with. But if you're |
0:55.8 | in the wrong place at the wrong time, the consequences could be much, much worse. On March 11, |
1:02.3 | 2005, Judge Restano of Niagara Falls, New York, was presiding over arraignments when a phone |
1:08.6 | went off in his courtroom. You never want to make a judge angry and when he heard the ringtone, Restano became enraged. |
1:16.6 | He warned the court that if the owner of the phone didn't step forward, everybody present would go to jail for a week. |
1:23.6 | There were 46 criminals in court for that session and although 45 had their phone safely switched off, |
1:29.3 | Restano was willing to put all their freedoms at risk, but nobody admitted that the phone was theirs. |
1:36.3 | Furious, the judge called back the 11 defendants he had already released and carted all 46 of them off to jail. |
1:43.3 | Those who couldn't afford their bail |
1:45.5 | were then shackled bus to the county prison and placed in cells. So how did Judge Restano get |
1:52.9 | away with such an insane sentencing? Well, luckily, this time justice was served. Restano was |
2:00.1 | reported to the New York State Commission on |
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