If you didn't know, don't flip off a judge.

[Rain Man]

It really has me torn. It seemed to me like the judge was pretty capricious and abused his power. However, I can also see where a court is a place to teach criminals (or at least the accused) that they need to behave in society, so strict enforcement of decorum should be allowable.

I lean toward thinking that the judge was improper in the first instance where he doubled her bail for saying adios. He invited it by his own casual behavior. I then think that the girl was improper in the second instance with her gesture, so she bought that jail time herself.

Or it's possible that the judge just gets pleasure from imagining her wrestling desperately for her honor against larger lesbian cellmates, so he planned it the whole time.