After Adam Satterly’s bond on drug charges was revoked, he thought it would be a good idea to shout “Punk-ass n--ger” in the courtroom where Judge Olu Stevens was presiding.

Usually, when in court, people tend to be on their best behavior. Adam Satterly, whose bond on drug charges was revoked Monday, apparently didn’t get the memo and earned himself an additional 60 days in jail for being in contempt of court, according to WDRB.
Satterly didn’t take it well when Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens revoked his bond. In a video, Satterly was heard shouting “Punk-ass n--ger” as he was escorted out of the courtroom. A visibly upset Stevens asked sheriff’s deputies to bring Satterly back into the courtroom.  

“Is there something that you wish to say to me?” Stevens asked Satterly.

“No, no, no, I didn’t mean it like that,” the video shows Satterly responding, and adding that he had been referring to his brother, not the judge. 

Stevens, however, wasn’t having it. “Oh, you didn’t mean it like that?” Stevens replied. “You don’t speak those words in here. And that word particularly, you don’t use that word. I’m going to give you 60 days for having used that word. I’m going to hold you in contempt right now for having used it in this courtroom. It’s disrespectful; don’t ever do it again.”

“This is how the new year starts,” Stevens said. 

The judge Tuesday reduced the sentence to time served after Satterly apologized.

According to the news station, this was not the first time matters of race played a central role in Stevens’ courtroom. Stevens, who is black, had not been hearing cases, amid an ongoing investigation by the Judicial Conduct Commission, after being called out by Kentucky’s chief justice, John Minton, over his comments that Commonwealth’s Attorney Tom Wine wanted “all white” juries.

Stevens was also heavily criticized for comments made to victims of an armed robbery, accusing them of “fostering” the views of their 5-year-old daughter, who, they claimed, was scared of black men after two black men held the family at gunpoint.  

“I’m offended by that. I’m deeply offended by that. That they would be victimized by an individual, and then express some kind of fear of all black men,” Stevens said, WDRB reports. “I wonder if the perpetrator had been white, would they be in fear of white men? The answer would probably be ‘No.’”

Monday was Stevens’ first day back on the bench since Minton denied a request to disqualify him from criminal cases. Minton did, however, criticize Stevens’ comments regarding Wine before referring that request to the Judicial Conduct Commission for possible future disciplinary action, the news station reports. 

http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/01/black_ky_judge_adds_60_days_to_man_s_jail_sentence_for_yelling_punk_ass.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxjZXzVCbDk

Stevens, Oluwole A. "Olu" 
Birth Year : 1970 
Louisville Judge Olu Stevens is the presiding Judge in the 30th Judicial Circuit, Division 6.  He had been a prosecutor with the Jefferson County Attorney's Office; he was in private practice for ten years; and was with the firm Stoll Keenon and Ogden. Stevens is a graduate of Morehouse College and George Washington University Law School. He is a past president of the Louisville Bar Association and a past president of the Louisville Bar Foundation. In 2009, Olu Stevens was one of three African American judges who received appointments from Kenucky Governor Steve Beshear; Stevens was appointed a circuit judge in Jefferson County. The other two appointments went to Sadiqua Reynolds and Erica Lee Williams, both were district judges [source: Wolfson, A. "Governor appoints three Black judges," Louisville Courier-Journal, 07/01/2009, News section]. In 2010, Judge Stevens was one of three African American judges to be elected in Jefferson County, and he retained his circuit court judgeship, defeating Thomas J. Cannon, garnering 60% of the votes [source: J. Riley, "3 African-American appointees elected," Louisville Courier-Journal, 11/03/2010, p.K8, News section]. The other election winners were District Judge Brian C. Edwards in Division 11, who had also received an appointment from Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear in 2009, and District Judge Erica Lee Williams in Division 17.

What a way to start the new year

The dude will let not to run his mouth next time

White people dont really like him though, he's under fire after he halted a drug trial and dismissed the entire jury upon noticing a lack of black jurors.