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Courtroom Yawner Jailed for Six Months - Friday The 13th - 08-13-2009
An Illinois man gets a rude awakening
when a judge gives him six months in jail for yawning in a courtroom.
Clifton Williams and his family are stunned by the harsh sentence --
the maximum typically issued for contempt-of-court charges --
and say the yawn was involuntary.
A court spokesman says Williams was willfully trying
to disrupt the court proceedings.