I was called as a witness in a civil case once, basically airtight before hand, the judge probably crossed a couple lines out of frustration...
it was between a friend and his mom, unfortnate when family ends up in court ahgainst each other but anyways, when my friends mom got divorced, part of the divorce was that when my friend turned 18, half the house was to be put in his name (his mom got the house) that never happened, eventually at 25 he took his mom to court over it.
at one point the judge stopped proceedings and looked at chucks mom and said, "you continually state that it says in the divorce decree that it was at your option, Ms. dimasse, you have the official decree infront of you, please SHOW me where it says that"
chuck's mom "it's not in that one it's in the other one"
judge " that is the final decree, thats the one that counts"
chuck's mom "but it's (cut off by judge)
judge " it is NOT in the final, it does not exist, you will not refer to it exisiting again"
chucks mom "but..."
Judge "ms dimassi, does the word contempt man ANYTHING to you?'
and in the summation the judge said "according to the testimony of ms. dimossi, that is IF you believe the testimony of miss dimassi
final outcome, judge awarded soul ownership to my friend and ordered the second his mom had on the house to be refied so it no longer was attached to the property with 90 days to vacate, all conditional on my friend giving his mom $10k (1/4 the value of the house at the time of the divorce. he did that in heartbeat, being in San diego he got a $350k house that just had major remodeling (paid for with a large chunk of the second) for $10k. Chuck didn't get legal fees though, the judge said "you just won the lottery, your gonna have to pay for the ticket though"
I really the only reason he got the whole house was because of his mom's stupidity in court ad constantly pissing off the judge.