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CHICAGO — A jury found 20-year-old Amara Harris not liable Thursday in an unusual civil trial involving two former high school students, a set of disputed AirPods and a ticket
A former Naperville North High School student accused of violating a municipal theft ordinance took the stand Wednesday at the DuPage County Courthouse to defend herself, asserting that she didn’t intentionally take another student’s AirPods. “I didn’t take them; I didn’t steal them,” Amara Harris told the six-person jury on the second day of her trial, a rarity for a municipal citation issued ...
CHICAGO — A jury found 20-year-old Amara Harris not liable Thursday in an unusual civil trial involving two former high school students, a set of disputed AirPods and a ticket issued by a Naperville police officer nearly four years ago. An officer assigned to Harris’ former high school, Naperville North, wrote her a ticket in 2019 that accused her of stealing another girl’s AirPods, a ...
Amara Harris declined plea deals and ultimately won a legal fight that dates back to 2019. Now she and her attorneys want to push for statewide reforms.
A jury trial began Tuesday at the DuPage County Courthouse in the case of a former Naperville North High School student accused of violating a municipal ordinance by stealing a fellow student’s AirPods, a rare escalation for a low-level civil allegation. A Naperville police officer assigned to Amara Harris’ school issued her a ticket in 2019, when she was 17. Harris’ lawyers maintained Tuesday ...