A local judge threatened prosecutors of contempt, due to the constant objections raised as witnesses were being questioned on the stand.

Describing them as "obnoxious, ridiculous, abundant and useless objections", Judge Sean R. Delahanty warned County Attorney Irv Maze and his prosecutors against the panel's multiple objections.

"What we have here is a major failure to communicate", said Delahanty, after Maze came to the courtroom upon hearing that a prosecutor, J.P. Ward, was threatened with contempt.

"I'm just shocked," Maze told the Courier-Journal. "I don't know what's going on in his mind. We all go by the same rules."

Maze accused Delahanty of going against regulations, as lawyers were expected to raise objections to improper questions - something that was backed by the Supreme Court, according to the UPI.

However, the judge defended that he had an unwritten law in his courtroom of a "standing objection to each and every question", and that the attorneys raising the objections would make them redundant, and time-wasting.

"I believe I have the discretion to do this," said Delahanty.

Maze insisted in an interview that despite the standing objections, the lawyers needed to challenge questions based on the situation.

"I am troubled with the concept that lawyers suddenly cannot conduct their hearings," said Maze.

The prosecutors in the end were told to hold their objections, for the mere purpose of avoiding imprisonment.