Lawyers of Reddit. What's the dumbest thing you've seen take place in front of the judge?

Serious replies only, but some of these are pretty funny.

Saw one defense attorney demonstrate twerking during closing arguments of an assault with intent to kill trial.

Your Honor, my client is not guilty. Why? Let me ask you this. Have you seen this? Throwing it back for a real one?

I arrest my case. DUI slash DWA slash drug defendants show up to criminal court with beer

slash weed slash F the police t-shirts constantly. During the direct examination of the defendant, the PD kept asking leading questions.

After five or so sustained objections in a row, the judge had enough and sent the jury out of the room to yell at the PD.

During the cross, about 10 minutes later, the judge again sent the jury out to yell at the defendant for trying to tell his story instead of just answering yes or no questions, not to mention he was clearly lying through his teeth.

Also, the defendant was recorded committing the crime.

So yeah, he was later found guilty.

I was in front of a judge for oral argument and the other side, pro per, failed to show up.

The judge called him and made him

argue against our emotion while driving and on his cell phone. The judge spoke for a minute,

setting up the arguments for the guy, basically leading him to the core argument and what he

should be saying if he wanted to get our emotion denied. After a few moments of silence,

the guy responds, Judge, I'm too stupid to understand what you just said.

That ended the argument quickly and in our favor.

Personal story.

I was sued once.

Well, they meant to sue me, but actually sued my uncle.

Same career.

Named him in the documents and served him.

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