Back in 2007 he sentenced Daniel Chapdelaine, Martin Soto and Fabian Rodriguez-Ramirez to wear a chicken costume while carrying a sign reading: "No Chicken Ranch in Painesville.” This was after the men were charged with soliciting sex from an undercover cop. In his sentence, he argued that the defendants would would avoid jail time if they agreed to a form of public shaming. While waving a sign. The three were expected to take turns wear a chicken costume while holding the sign for three hours.
The sign’s message referred to the Chicken Ranch brothel in Nevada, founded in the 1970s which ran into trouble with locals leading to a brothel war, if you may. Later it was relocated to another county.
Earlier in 2006, Robert Clark shot and killed his dog. Judge Cicconetti agreed to reduce Clark’s jail time. In exchange, the dog-killer would dress up as a “Safety Pup” mascot and visit elementary school children.
In another case, the judge learned of Steven Thompson’s expletive-laden rant, during which he called a police officer a pig. In punishing Thompson’s unseemly conduct, the judge forced him to spend some quality time with a 160-kilogram (350-pound) pig holding a sign that read, “This is not a police officer.” He also ordered Steven to apologize to the officers.
Just when you think this judge might run out of creative punishments, Judge Michael Cicconetti ordered a woman who had refused to pay a cab to walk 30 miles or stay two months in jail. Of course the woman chose to walk the 30 miles.
The judge strongly believes in giving people a taste of their own medicine. He once forced an offender to spell out an apology in coins. He also required a woman who abandoned her kittens in the woods to spend a night in the wild alone, without food or water.
Quite beffiting punishments if you ask me.
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