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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When you are in a courtroom lady, the Judge makes the rules.
48 hours? Shoulda been more.
Again, how would the judge know she was gay again?
“I own the nose?”
< /seinfeld>
Bwaaahaha. Whiny kid meets real world where there are norms of behaviour.
I’ve got hand!
For some reason I think she is guilty. I will reserve judgment until pics.
I just want to know how she stumbled so badly as to say the word 'inaprorpriate'
We were at the store the other day and my son asked if I had seen the woman wearing the t-shirt that said "F#ck you"? I hadn't so I turned to look... and my son said 'she's over there with the two little kids"
Classy
It’s a good thing stupid isn’t a crime. She would be doing life.
Looks like we have a candidate for The Smoking Gun’s mugshot gallery in this one.
Guilty as Hell!
Need more evidence to judge guilt or innocence.
Tweezing accident?
What on earth happened to her eye brows? At some point you have to realize they’re missing...like when you’re brushing your teeth or something, don’t you?
What has been seen...
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