Loitering while online: 5 years in MI
...so it could have been, had this gone to trial.
To some extent, one can feel a little sympathy for the barbershop guy. It's not a good thing to have cars sitting in front of your establishment every day without contributing to income. And he had no idea that the Michigan legislature had done a drunken tour through cyberlaw. Neither had the investigating officer:
Milanowski ruled out Peterson as a possible stalker of the attractive local hairdresser, but still felt that a law might have been broken."We came back and we looked up the laws and we figured if we found one and thought, 'Well, let's run it by the prosecutor's office and see what they want to do,'" Milanowski said.
In other words, Peterson "should" have been arrested, because he made a cop work unnecessarily, so Milanowski looked for a law that could apply (regardless of whether any sane normal human would expect there to be such a law), and since it was a cop making the charge, the prosecutor had to run with it.
I hope Milanowski suddenly develops difficulty in getting a good cup of coffee in Kent County.
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