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Judge fines himself for ringing cellphone

A judge in Hillsboro, Ohio, held himself to the same standards as others in his courtroom Tuesday when his cellphone began to ring.

Judge Rocky Coss fined himself $25 for the infraction, WCPO reports.

Coss has a sign warning all those who enter his courtroom to turn off their cellphones, and he enforces the measure with $25 fines when he hears a ringing phone.

Coss says he left his cellphone in his shirt pocket and forgot all about it until his wife called him. It’s his first offense, he adds.

“I don’t see how I can hold someone else in contempt and fine them for disrupting the proceedings when I do the same thing and not fine myself,” he tells WCPO.

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