Instructor Who Took Cell Phone Cleared

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A special prosecutor could not have had worse timing for telling a judge he'd cleared him of theft for taking a college student's ringing cell phone during a class.

Special prosecutor Rob Ives had just delivered his report Friday in Tippecanoe Superior Judge Les Meade's crowded courtroom when his own cell phone began ringing.

Ives quickly left the courtroom, which has a posted sign instructing those entering to turn off their cell phones. Other attorneys waited nervously to see Meade's reaction.

As it turned out, the judge liked Ives' ring tone – the song, "I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)."

"It was the perfect ending to this little annoyance," Meade said….