A woman will spend nine days behinds bars for disrespecting courtroom decorum when she stormed out, slammed a door and later cursed at the judge.

Lauren Maddy, who was in 44th Circuit Court in Howell for a probation violation hearing involving a defendant believed to be her boyfriend, was apparently upset when the defendant was given a jail sentence.

Maddy mumbled under breath as she stomped her feet and threw open the courtroom door.

She was already in the hallway when Judge Michael P. Hatty sent a deputy after her.

Seconds later, Maddy stood before Hatty.

She sputtered for a moment, and then announced the victim in her boyfriend’s case “lied.”

“Ma’am, in a courtroom we all have respect for the procedure of law, the rules of law and decorum,” Hatty told her.

“You just violated that. Three days in the Livingston County Jail,” he said, calling out to a court deputy.

“Cool. You guys are (expletive) …,” Maddy retorted.

“Deputy, now. Six days,” Hatty said as the sound of handcuffs opening and closing over Maddy wrists could be heard in the courtroom.

Hatty then asked the woman for her name and she spit out the letters one by one as he told her to spell it.

When Hatty repeated the six-day sentence for contempt of court, Maddy turned her head and said tersely: “Thanks.”

“Nine days,” Hatty said as the woman was led away by a deputy.

Meanwhile, the defendant, Keante Chappell, pleaded guilty to violating probation and was sentenced to six months in the county jail.

Chappell also tried to tell the judge the “victim lied,” prompting Assistant Prosecutor Daniel Rose to ask the court to send a message to the public that blaming rape victims is not appropriate.

Chappell was convicted in April 2013 of criminal sexual conduct and this is his third parole violation.

“I’m not the monster (the prosecution) makes me out to be,” Chappell said. “It just sucks I have to deal with this.”

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