Originally Posted by
dksix
The first court should have handled it better but a small local court siding with the local cop isn't surprising (wrong yes but not really surprising).
This was a State Trooper and not a local cop.
Plus; From wiki - The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes all of Washtenaw County, which had a population of 344,791 as of 2010. The city is also part of the larger Detroit–Ann Arbor–Flint, MI Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with a population of 5,318,744.
A judge siding with a cop when no law is broken bothers me.