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  And not only did he get his charges repealed, he got the original parking ticket dismissed.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.