He claimed the boy was jaywalking and when stopped, started "yelling and making a scene" and "fighting" when the patrolmen tried to frisk him.

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Clearly the judge saw the absurdity of convicting a mother who had just lost her 4-year-old to a hit-and-run death, whose only crime was jaywalking.

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"Jaywalking is a misdemeanor in some places, " Brand says.

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Andy Rooney could put things in perspective, like jaywalking.

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But it's illegal like jaywalking is illegal.

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Or fine the mother for jaywalking.

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Yes, she admits to jaywalking.

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"During my 35 years in the working world, I had never been accused of so much as jaywalking, so it was painful for me and my family to have my honesty and integrity impugned, often by innuendo, " he wrote in his book about the probe.

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