Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Special prosecutor's decision has a nice ring for judge - Journal News:
Six weeks ago, Judge Meade was teaching a business law class at Purdue when a student's cell phone began ringing. Meade took away the student's phone when he said the student failed to turn it off promptly. Meade said he intended to turn it in to the dean's office the next morning. But the student, in a hurry to get his phone back, called Purdue police. Police officers told Meade if he failed to return the phone to the student, that refusal would constitute theft. While Meade was discussing the matter with officers, Richard Cosier, dean of the School of Management, arrived, took possession of the phone and returned it to its owner after lecturing the student about rules against using cell phones during class. Purdue spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg said police reports on the incident were forwarded to the prosecutor's office as a matter of procedure without any expectation of further action. Prosecutor Pat Harrington said he sought the appointment of a special prosecutor to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
Special prosecutor Rob Ives had just delivered a report saying he would not be filing charges in connection with allegations of theft against Judge Les Meade when Ives' own cell phone began ringing in the middle of Meade's crowded courtroom.
A sign on the door of Meade's courtroom, Tippecanoe Superior Court 5, instructs those entering to turn off their cell phones.
Ives quickly left the courtroom and turned off his phone while other attorneys nervously waited to see Meade's reaction.
'It was the perfect ending to this little annoyance,' Meade said, laughing and noting that Ives' ringtone was the song
'I Fought the Law (and the Law Won).'
-----"I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)" was a hit for The Bobby Fuller Four in 1965, rising to No. 4 on the Billboard chart. Some lyrics: "Breakin' rocks in the hot sun. ... Robbin' people with a (bang bang bang bang bang bang) six-gun." According to a Wikipedia entry, Fuller, 23, died in 1966, perhaps by suicide; some think he was murdered. -staff report (citing wkp!)

I read about this ~ last Friday at Salonica in Chicago Sun-Times I think.
Joe mentions: "John Cougar Mellancamp's version":
When I fight Authority, Authority Always Wi-ins.

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