A court stenographer was sent to jail for not completing a trial transcript on time!

Ann Margaret Smith was sent to jail back in 2007 for not completing the transcript for the trial of a convicted rapist by its deadline. Smith, who had already failed for several months to produce the transcript, stood trial and was held in contempt of court for not meeting the final due date. Later that week, the stenographer was released and placed under house arrest because she reportedly could not finish the work in jail because she was worried about her children. The house arrest period ended once she was finally able to complete the last 400 pages of the 1,500-page document.