{"id":82460,"date":"2025-12-03T16:41:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=82460"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:41:41","slug":"man-bursts-into-laughter-after-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=82460","title":{"rendered":"Man Bursts Into Laughter After Being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-35-576x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-35-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-35-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-35.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A courtroom was left completely stunned after a man&nbsp;<strong>burst into laughter<\/strong>&nbsp;the moment he was sentenced to&nbsp;<strong>life in prison<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29-year-old, identified as&nbsp;<strong>Calvin Brooks<\/strong>, had just been found guilty of first-degree murder when the judge read out his punishment \u2014 but instead of showing remorse, Brooks started&nbsp;<strong>laughing uncontrollably<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Witnesses said his laughter echoed through the courtroom, leaving everyone frozen. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a normal laugh,\u201d one reporter said. \u201cIt was cold \u2014 almost like he thought it was funny.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Harold Bennett paused the sentencing and warned Brooks to compose himself, but the convict kept smirking and chuckling as deputies moved in to escort him out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors called the behavior \u201cdisturbing\u201d and said it showed Brooks had \u201cno sense of guilt or humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video footage of the moment has since gone viral online, with people calling it one of the \u201ccreepiest courtroom reactions ever.\u201d<br>One commenter wrote: \u201cThat laugh gave me chills,\u201d while another said, \u201cHe\u2019s not even human at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brooks is now serving his life sentence at a state correctional facility \u2014 reportedly still showing little emotion about his conviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smartbearsmeadia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b-rt.png\" alt=\"b rt\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=82418\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A courtroom was left completely stunned after a man&nbsp;burst into laughter&nbsp;the moment he was sentenced to&nbsp;life in prison. The 29-year-old, identified as&nbsp;Calvin Brooks, had just been found&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82462,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82460\/revisions\/82462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}