Posted on 05/05/2010 12:19:23 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A Round Lake Park woman was held in contempt and jailed for two days for the message on her T-shirt.
The message was: "I own the (female body part), so I make the rules."
Jennifer LaPenta, 19, was released from the Lake County Jail Tuesday.
"They should be out looking for people who are breaking the law, not arresting someone wearing a T-shirt," LaPenta said.
Associate Judge Helen Rozenburg charged LaPenta with contempt of court for wearing the garment in her courtroom Monday. LaPenta was sitting in the gallery waiting for a friend's case to be called when the judge called her forward.
Rozenburg asked LaPenta if she thought her shirt was appropriate.
LaPenta said she told the judge that it would have been inaprorpriate had she been the defendant.
Rozenburg immediately sentenced her to 48 hours in jail and had her cuffed, LaPenta said.
LaPenta contends that she never went to bond court or got to call her mother.
"They just threw me in jail. They never told me what I was going to jail for," LaPenta said.
LaPenta said that she had been at a gym Monday when her friend asked her for a ride to the courthouse. She was wearing sweat pants and that T-shirt when she was cuffed and jailed.
"All the officers thought it was hilarious -- it was humiliating," LaPenta said.
LaPenta said she bought the shirt in the gay section of Spencer's. She said she is openly homosexual and said the judge was a "homophobe" for putting her in custody for wearing the shirt.
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Giving the finger is not illegal. You a have a free speech steppingstone here. You hear a lot worse on any city street and nothing is done about it. I think anti-gay bias allows for this piling on. Next thing, they will have Sarah in jail for saying “reload” since you can connect reload with vollies fired which equals X number of deaths. That’s a lot more deaths than caused by use of that body part, thereby backdoor justification of “reload” being a dirty word.
GUILTY!
Destroyed, no doubt, by carpet carpet burn.
Huh? Was she eating a taco in the courtroom at the time?
Well she sure LOOKS like a genius!
What a fantastic use of taxpayer dollars. I feel safer.
I have to agree with you. Being embarrassed by being tossed out is a lesson unto itself. I would sure hope there’s more to it than the shirt.
Should the text of the shirt be visible in her mugshot?
Look, I’m not a prude, but...it’s a courtroom, not a bar.
The Judge wasn’t being harsh... she was just placing her
in ‘protective custody’ for a couple of days. Anyone that
stupid needs protection.
“I own the Doris?”
“I own the Mulvah?”
I'd volunteer a new anaesthetician.
Obviously just a huge misunderstanding - the t-shirt was referring to her cat/s
“They just threw me in jail. They never told me what I was going to jail for,” LaPenta said”
Being a smartassed little c—t.
No, really, he is the dumber one by far.
Well if she is gay....could they have gotten rubbed off?
Contempt of court usually does mandate jail time. The little b*tch should’ve kept her smart mouth shut.
Ah, so that's how it works. I always thought one got sentenced to jail for first breaking a law, then being found guilty then sentenced.........
Thanks for the clarification on the new judicial system in this country.
Lets round up some tea partiers and show them the same justice...........
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