As I mentioned yesterday, accused South Park rapist and murderer Isaiah Kalebu has been barred from his own trial because of his erratic behavior and disrespectful pre-trial outbursts in court.

So where exactly is Kalebu during moments like yesterday's testimony?

He's up on a higher floor of the courthouse, watching the proceedings on closed circuit television and, I'm told, wearing something called a "suicide smock"—a type of outfit designed to provide the wearer with no strings, sleeves, or other possible aides to self injury. Each day Kalebu is wheeled, in some sort of restraint chair, out of his cell and into a private courtroom to view the testimony against him. This courtroom is closed to the public and the media, but television reporters keep staking it out, going up to Kalebu's floor and asking him for comment as he's being wheeled inside in the morning and taken out at the end of the day.

They seem to be getting tired of the exercise, and so does he. Yesterday, after testimony concluded, a local television reporter returned from the upper floor and announced that Kalebu had said to her: "Do you have any more stupid questions?"

The reporter said she hadn't actually asked him anything, couldn't bring herself to.

"He's just so vile," she said.