Judge Robert Restaino of Niagara Falls City Court sent 46 defendants in domestic violence cases to jail after a cell phone went off in his court room and no one claimed responsibility for it.
Links:
[1] http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2008/02/should-judge-wh.html
[2] http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/02/20/two-hours-of-inexplicable-madness-or-something-else/