There
are times when seems as if justice favors not those who are right, but
those who are loudest. How else can you look at the case of Jared Rapp,
a one-time Michigan State University College of Law Student now turned
lawyer.
Rapp
was the traditional arrogant, bustling fool who was convinced that he
didn’t deserve the ticket that the university meter maid was writing for
him. It got so bad that the meter maid called MSU Police during the
incident. The police claimed that he reacted aggressively and yelled
during the confrontation.
He
was essentially charged under a university ordinance which said that
no one can molest or disrupt the activity of any person or agency
carrying out a service for the agreement which resulted in two years of
probation, 80 hours of community service, an $873 fine, and a mandatory
anger management course.
Rapp
appealed, all the way up to the Michigan Supreme Court, arguing that
the ordinance was written in such a way to give law enforcement the
power to arrest anyone who offends an officer. And he won.
So
here we have a man who behaved excessively badly, yelling at a meter
maid until she felt like she needed to call the police. And not only
did he get his charges repealed, he got the original parking ticket
dismissed. It hardly seems fair that, just because officers decided to
charge him with a particular ordinance, he gets off from all the wrong
that he wrought.
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