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| Man convicted of stabbing LI funeral home owner explodes in court as he receives hefty sentence | |
| 2025-04-18 | |
| [NYPOST] A Long Island man convicted of stabbing and robbing a funeral home director in 2023 exploded in a Suffolk County courtroom Wednesday — attempting to fire his attorney, interrupting prosecutors and calling the judge ''the devil'' before receiving a 25-year prison sentence. Jason Funderburke, 39, who was convicted by a jury in March, stormed into the courtroom Wednesday and attempted to reject its authority to deliver a sentence — obnoxiously objecting every time the prosecutor spoke and causing the judge to tell him to ''shut up'' during the testy proceedings. ''You were convicted by a jury of your peers,'' a befuddled Judge Timothy Mazzei replied. Funderburke, who hails from Hempstead, then began shouting over the judge, rattling off random cherry-picked sections of state and federal law, accusing the court of violating his First and 14th Amendment rights. He also refused to address the judge with respect, instead calling him “Mr. Mazzei” because he is “not honorable.” “Will you shut up?!” the judge eventually snapped at Funderburke, briefly removing him from the court before bringing him back for final sentencing. His attorney asked the judge to take into consideration his client’s “clear and serious mental health issues” displayed throughout the trial
“You don’t represent me! I’ll represent myself,” he shouted. In Aug. 2023, Funderburke and an accomplice stabbed an Amityville funeral home owner during a robbery. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 "Candidly, your Dishonor, this stuff is all jurisfiction, for I can only be tried under the law of Westphalia! You see, my seventh great-grandma was the seventh servant of the seventh lady-in-waiting to the sister of the Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronckh..." [an hour later, halfway down the courthouse steps, drops Strat he's been playing on a hundred foot cord and hauls ass] |
| Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2025-04-18 17:06 |
| #3 explodes in court I was thinking 'spontaneous combustion'. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-18 14:49 |
| #2 Jason Funderburke? He's probably just pissed off because that name carries zero street cred ... |
| Posted by: Warthog 2025-04-18 10:44 |
| #1 For 39 years his methodology worked. Probably even got him a diploma. He has several years for a rethink. Stats are certainly not is his favor. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-04-18 08:54 |