and Johnson didn't show up to meet with his probation officer. That's grounds to be taken into immediate custody and have probation revoked. He also assaulted a woman at a bar. In most states, probationers are not allowed to be at a bar and it's interesting that he hasn't been required to submit to urine analysis. I think that he has been shown a lot of favoritism that most people wouldn't receive in similar circumstances.

Sorry, but Chad gets no sympathy from me and the judge's decision seems reasonable.

lawyer for getting this deal for him. Instead of doing so, he patted his lawyer on the ass in court. He is in court, and should show respect for the court. Football players have been known to take offense when others pat their asses in the wrong context, in fact they have been known to punch people bloody for doing so. To pat a lawyer's ass in court might be tempting, but it is about as appropriate as spiking a ball at the bailiff.
The athlete was in the wrong, and also an idiot.

Not acting stupid in public. It's disrespectful to smack someone on the ass in a courtroom.

Seriously, I can't believe that needs to be said.

If athletes are comfortable with this gesture toward each other during a game, that's their business. Smacking someone's ass who isn't a teammate during a game in a totally different environment whether in or out of a courtroom is stupid, disrespectful and completely inappropriate. The fact that he did it to his attorney in a courtroom goes way beyond stupid, disrespectful and inappropriate. Clearly, it shows that he hasn't learned a fucking thing about keeping his hands to himself and not using peoples' body parts inappropriately.

This domestic violence asswipe should never have gotten a plea anyway. Anyone else in his same position would not have.

Ochocinco or whatever the asshat calls himself is a tool.

The guy knew he was getting off lightly for the assault--and he decides to get cute in court?

Domestic violence no less and some people want to make him seem like a hero.

That's totally what this issue is about and the attorney themselves did not consider it disrespectful. It was a spur of the moment symbolic gesture from a football player, and the football player "good job" pat on the ass to their teammates is a well-known gesture in America.

So...

I am left wondering if the courtroom did not react as it did if the judge would have had any problem with it. And that leads me to wonder exactly how much merit her rejection of the plea has.

PB