'They just threw me in jail' - Round Lake Park woman protests penalty for T-shirt

suburbanchicagonews.com ^ | May 5, 2010 | BETH KRAMER

[Palladin]

Happy Cinco de Eye-oh!

[Responsibility2nd]

LaPenta

La P*ta

______________________

Same difference.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Weird news alert. [Shouldn’t be weird, but ... ]

[Hacklehead]

There’s a gay section at Spencer’s Gifts? That’s queer.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Master of my own domain!

[WashingtonSource]

Looks like a Lesbian to me.

[throwback]

Doesn’t her partner also own her own female body part, so...who makes the rules again?

[ozarkgirl]

The judge should have kicked her out of the courtroom - not jailed her.

I can’t believe what a police state we’re becoming.

[ozarkgirl]

Your reaction here doesn’t surprise me. You like the police state.

So how long do you think she should be jailed for wearing innappropriate attire in a courtroom?

[Drew68]

I’m guessing that despite the headline and reporting that the contempt was more for the sass than the shirt.

It probably was but the judge should've just tossed her out without giving her the opportunity to shoot off her mouth. The shirt was inappropriate courtroom attire, period. No explanation needed.

Oh well. Hopefully the young woman had a valuable learning experience from all this.

[Gay State Conservative]

Depending on the exact wording on the T-shirt I could support the judge’s ruling.

[reaganaut1]

I agree, except that a fine would also be appropriate. But there are better uses of jail cells.

[thefactor]

Oh please. You think that's all there is to this story? You really think she was sitting there all quiet and respectful and they just threw her in jail?

Something besides the shirt most likely alerted the court to this girl. Try not to believe every statement of 'fact' by every one-sided article you read.

Control of a court room is of the utmost importance or else credibility is lost.

[ozarkgirl]

If that is the case, then I can see jail time if she were actually disrupting in some way.

And I hope that is the case because being jailed for wearing inappropriate attire in a courtroom is frightening.

[Venturer]

What a classy 19 year old, I bet her Mom is proud of her.

By the way I went to my Grand daughters First Communion Sunday and after the kids made their first communion, the rest of the church went to get their communion, and up walks this girl about 17 with short shorts on and a T shirt that said Bitch across the front. I dont know where parents are when they see these things and are too stupid to tell their kids how ignorant that looks.

[RosalindJ]

""All the officers thought it was hilarious -- it was humiliating," LaPenta said." Wear a shirt like that to a court room, get tossed in the slammer for contempt and then complain about being humiliated? Ah, the felony stupid. Or misdemeanor stupid, as the case may be.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I remember seeing a hells-angel type wearing a black tee shirt at a Flea Market in Ventura, California way back in the 1970’s. The white letters on the black tee shirt spelled, “FU*K OFF.” Except there was a “C” instead of an asterik.

I pointed the T-shirt out to my father, and my Dad said, “That’s what he IS!”

[throwback]

Judges tend to get cranky. I went to court with my wife for her “assault” on a neighbor (she pushed him for saying something insulting). While there, a guy accused of firing a weapon in city limits was up. He got probation and community service or something. Still, he couldn't resist cracking off at the judge as he left. Well the bailiff promptly grabbed him and he got 30 days. So much for going home. It's like mouthing off to cops; just inflicting pain on yourself.

[teenyelliott]

that photo comes in handy sooooo often

[nothingnew]

The judge should have kicked her out of the courtroom - not jailed her.

Agreed.

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