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2 cleared in hot-tub case sue neighbors
chicago tribune ^ | 1/13/07 | staff

Posted on 01/17/2007 2:57:16 PM PST by mathprof

A Cook County sheriff's lieutenant and her boyfriend filed a defamation lawsuit Friday against sheriff's officials and neighbors who accused them of having sex in a back-yard hot tub in 2005.

Lt. Kelly Mrozek of Lockport and her boyfriend, Mark Sumner of Orland Park, were found not guilty of public indecency in September.

In the lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court, Mrozek and Sumner accused their neighbors of defamation and invasion of privacy. They alleged that the defendants joined in a "scheme to maliciously harass Lt. Mrozek" and agreed to "do anything possible, including contacting the news media, to bring about criminal charges."

Sheriff's officials and neighbors Jeff and Robbin Garrett declined to comment Friday.[snip]

At the criminal trial before Will County Judge Marilee Viola, Mrozek denied that she and Sumner had sex in the hot tub in the back yard of Mrozek's duplex.

In reaching her verdict, Viola said "common sense tells you those acts occurred." But the judge said prosecutors had failed to prove that Mrozek's back yard was a "public place" where the couple should have expected to be seen.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; hottub; privacy
Judge Marilee Viola is full of common sense.
1 posted on 01/17/2007 2:57:18 PM PST by mathprof
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To: mathprof

Sex in a hot tub .... who would have thunk


2 posted on 01/17/2007 2:58:07 PM PST by clamper1797 (Per caritate viduaribus orphanibusque sed prime viduaribus)
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To: mathprof

It wasn't sex, just a game of hide the sub.


3 posted on 01/17/2007 3:00:43 PM PST by Slicksadick (Go out on a limb........Its where the fruit is.)
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To: mathprof

The Judge had some common sense unlike the nosey meighbors


4 posted on 01/17/2007 3:00:54 PM PST by boxerblues
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To: Slicksadick

Was there snorkeling gear involved? And where are the pics?
How can we make up our minds without pics?


5 posted on 01/17/2007 3:03:01 PM PST by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: mathprof
Mrs. Kravitz lost.
6 posted on 01/17/2007 3:12:24 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: mathprof
"In reaching her verdict, Viola said "common sense tells you those acts occurred."

So every time a couple uses a hot tub, they're having sex? Really? Sounds like the judge doesn't own a hot tub but does possess a fervid, adolescent imagination.

7 posted on 01/17/2007 3:12:43 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: dynachrome

Pics? I withhold judgement until I see if she is closer to resemblance of Ann Coulter or Rosie O'.


8 posted on 01/17/2007 3:16:50 PM PST by Mark (REMEMBER: Mean spirited, angry remarks against my postings won't feed even one hungry child.)
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To: clamper1797

This is why I don't go into hot tubs, this and a$$ matter.


9 posted on 01/17/2007 3:18:51 PM PST by Kimmers (It's not what you take when you leave this world behind, it's what you leave behind when you go)
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To: Mark

" I withhold judgement "
Yup. Until we find out out if she is hot (or for the ladies, if the guy is a stud)


10 posted on 01/17/2007 3:21:26 PM PST by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: clamper1797

So what if they were having sex? It's their private property, and I'm sure they don't appreciate their neighbors watching them doing whatever they do. Who the hell put them in control of the neighbors' lives?


11 posted on 01/17/2007 3:32:49 PM PST by Lusis ("Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.")
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To: dynachrome

POssible lead - http://attu-pics.blogspot.com/2006/09/hottub-officer-kelly-mrozek.html


12 posted on 01/17/2007 3:33:32 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: mathprof

POLICE OFFICER: What do you mean he's been exposing himself over there? I can't see his window from here.

SPINSTER: Well, if you stand up on this chair and lean way over to the left, you can.

6, 7, 8

Thank you very much. I'll be here all week. Have the veal.


13 posted on 01/17/2007 3:37:05 PM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: Lusis

My neighbors did the exact same thing .... I got totally frustrated when I couldn't find one decent knothole in the fence ....


14 posted on 01/17/2007 3:38:14 PM PST by clamper1797 (Per caritate viduaribus orphanibusque sed prime viduaribus)
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To: clamper1797
The neighbors might've been in the right if they'd've just claimed that over 100,000 swimmers in the hot tub were cruelly killed by chemicals.

HF

15 posted on 01/17/2007 4:02:50 PM PST by holden
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To: Lusis
Who the hell put them in control of the neighbors' lives?

I see from your endearing, naive remark that you don't live in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor!

HF

16 posted on 01/17/2007 4:08:24 PM PST by holden
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To: holden
If by "naive" you mean that I don't give in to busybodies, then damn skippy I don't, and I refuse to live under a homeowners' association too.
17 posted on 01/17/2007 4:13:02 PM PST by Lusis ("Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.")
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To: mathprof
They were just channeling James Brown.

AIIIIEEE!!

IT'S HOT! TOO HOT!!

IN THE HOT TUB!

HEH!

18 posted on 01/17/2007 10:10:36 PM PST by uglybiker (A bunch of radical Unitarians left a flaming question mark on my lawn!)
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To: mathprof

You can have sex in a hot tub?


19 posted on 01/23/2007 5:06:14 PM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Mark; muir_redwoods

20 posted on 01/23/2007 5:10:20 PM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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