That's got to be the most blatant case of contempt I've ever seen. Impressive how he continues to try to bluff himself out of this despite the judge constantly calling his bluff.
People are really impressed with the judge but I am not so Pmuch. He should be in jail already. Our justice system quickly finds excuses to incarcerate or worse, for much less, for "lower classes" of people.
I'm very much okay with judges being extraordinarily careful to preserve people's due process rights. There's not really any significant time pressure involved - if it takes an extra month to make it abundantly clear that they're willfully and knowingly defying court orders, so be it.
Fair point. Plenty of people don't even get a second chance and get incarcerated on very questionable evidence, whereas this guy got five tries despite obviously lying.