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“Maybe the potential son-in-law was a loser, and not the best match - we don’t know. But that doesn’t matter now, because the daughter is dead. Why carry the vindictiveness?”

It is more than vindictiveness, it’s contractual law also.

It is against the law to place items on a gravesite in Alabama unless it is cleared by the family of the deceased. The Hagans family never gave Ford the okay to place anything, let alone numerous boxes that were removed by the Hagan family.
According to the arrest warrant, the fiancé, Winchester Hagans, left objects at the grave of Ford’s daughter without permission after being warned repeatedly to stop.
Sari Card, an Administrative Assistant with Parks and Recreation in Auburn, she had more than one conversation with Hagans in which she informed him Ford did not wish to have the boxes on the gravesite. “I informed him that Mr. Ford did not want him to continue to put the boxes out there, that I thought that he was going to take legal action because that’s what he had discussed with me, and that if he continued, he might have him arrested,” Card said.

According to Card, Hagans replied that “he didn’t care” and that he would continue to place boxes at the site every time they were removed.

Hagans previously told the Washington Post that he put the flower box on the grave because there was no headstone. However, Ford provided photos of the different boxes, which showed them placed directly above the headstone, which was present in every image.

And the final decision by the court found Hagans guilty of one count of criminal littering and fined him $50 plus $251 in court costs. They could have got him for a bunch more. So only $50 of the fine went to the family who probably spent more than that cleaning up the unwanted boxes and his jail sentenced was suspended if he stayed within the law.

The 30-day jail sentence accompanying the charge was suspended by McLaughlin so long as Hagans does not place any more boxes on the grave. I’d say they just wanted to be left alone and Hagans was pushing an unwanted issue.

Judge McLaughlin found Hagans guilty, stating that the prosecution’s case was proven beyond a reasonable doubt. “I don’t get paid to have emotions or to rule on what’s right, or what’s nice, or what’s moral, or what’s Christian,” McLaughlin said. “I’m paid to rule on the law and the facts. And when you take all the emotion out of it, and you get off Facebook and keyboard warriors, and all that, what you wind up with is a deed for Dr. Ford.

“You’ve got a deed that says ‘no boxes.’ You’ve got a gentleman who’s been told ‘no boxes’ by a city lawyer in uncontroverted testimony. You’ve got a gentleman who says – and this is frankly where I lose my patience – ‘I don’t care what the rules are and what the law says, I’m going to do what I want.’ Well, he’s not. It’s a clear case of a violation of this deed, and a violation of the littering statute.”

Clearly put.

Wy69

We are a nation of laws, not feelings. The grave site if the property of the father. The dirtbag was told to not put that type of display on someone else’s PROPERTY 10 times. They decided the private property rights of others don’t mean anything, they cpould do what evee they pleased. This is the same attitude of the BLM protestors. They claim to have strong “feelings” of social injustice and think those “feelings” trump private property rights. Activist judges “feel” that this is right and so IGNORE the black letter law when making rulings.

The father problem saw this type of BAD CHARACTER in the the guy and that’s why he would be bad news for his daughter. I would be furious if some dirtbag kept pictures of himself and my daughters on her grave site. The guy is free to build a HUGE shine of his choosing on HIS OWN PROPERTY.