A Mississippi judge holds assistant public defender in contempt of court - for defending his indigent client. When will this crap end?

Yet another jerk of a judge, now in Mississippi, punished an attorney for speech in defense of his client.

Attorney Chris Routh was sent to jail for contempt of court by judge Jeff Weill for asking the judge to give the attorney reasoning - just REASONING - as to why the judge is sending a criminal defendant in a capital murder case, a mother of a 3-month-old baby, to jail without bail.

The hearing was to revoke the bond for Ms. Blackwell, and all that her attorney was asking was - reasoning from the court as to why the decision was made.

Given the circumstances, that the woman had a 3-month-old baby, the request was more than reasonable.

What Judge Weill did is he sent the public defender to jail WITHOUT BOND for contempt of court.

Arguing for your client in criminal court, in a capital murder case is contempt of court.

No wonder young attorneys do not wants to go into criminal defense, especially into public defenders' offices.

The work is becoming too dangerous.