Renea Gamble Prevails

[Beboppin’ and scattin’ all over him]
Renea Gamble, a 62-year-old woman who was arrested when she wore a 7-foot-tall inflatable penis costume to protest the dic(k)tatorial regime of Donald Trump, has been acquitted on all misdemeanor charges. The whole story is farcical, but I particularly liked this exchange with the defendant’s husband:

[The prosecutor] called Gamble’s husband as a witness to testify that he had withdrawn bail money before they attended the protest, as if she knew she was going to break the law in advance.

“I always make sure we got bail money on us,” Larry Fletcher responded, to laughter from the gallery. “I have bail money on me now. Whenever there are this many cops around I have bail money on me.”

There were no fewer than 16 uniformed police officers standing around the perimeter of the courtroom.

That’s some poor prosecuting, but some fine reporting.

Previously in ludicrous prosecutions: Afroman Prevails

Link: https://www.courthousenews.com/penis-costume-protester-prevails-in-court/