Case Success: Teacher Cleared of Indecent Exposure Charge (MLive)

A Hastings, Michigan elementary school teacher can finally start getting back to normal life after a jury acquitted him of a misguided indecent exposure charge; the charge arose after he peed in his own backyard in what he thought was a private area. Attorney Fil Iorio said his client is “extremely relieved” to be cleared. The teacher had been

working in his basement, which doesn’t have a bathroom, when he stepped outside to relieve himself. ... Iorio argued: “Peeing in your back yard is not a crime. This was not an exposure case. He’s got a fairly large back yard. He peed outside, unaware his neighbor was outside.”

Read the full MLive article, "Teacher Who Urinated in Back Yard Cleared of Indecent Exposure Charge."