You're a funny guy.......
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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Not for mouthing off an insult to the judge's face.
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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.
She wasn't jailed for wearing the shirt in the courtroom. She was jailed for mouthing off to the judge.
“Being embarrassed by being tossed out is a lesson unto itself.”
Upon having read the article, one realizes that it would likely require far more than being tossed out of the courtroom to embarrass the “girl.”
Perhaps but that or an affordable fine makes more sense than jail.
Don’t hold the TEA Party in the courtroom. lol
You would be correct except that the word “affordable” is of course relative.
Naturally.
You're a funny guy.......
I guess sometimes one member of the family absorbs all the stupid.
That first one looks kinda like a Klingon.
Here’s my question. If you are a gay woman...who decides to be the REAL rule-maker since both of them would have possession? I’m so confused!
Ithink I’m okay with putting her in jail. Sometimes people need an attitude adjustment.
They should have just thrown her out of the court room.
lol
Erasmus, you are my favorite scientist/philosopher for that one.
I guess the judge decided he owned the gavel and he would make the rules in his courtroom....itwas a challenge to his authority...
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