This is copied from the "living in your car page" since it's a legal story.

I decided not to pay the fine for "sleeping in a vehicle" but to make them waste money on me by taking me to trial and by paying my room and board while I was in their stinking jail. They gave me a lawyer, a kid fresh outa law school with no balls and no smarts. They called him a public defender, ha ha, he was just a public negotiator at best. I told the punk I was not asleep when the cops found me, I had heard them drive up, so they cannot charge me with sleeping in the car, how simple can it get? The public defender refused to defend me on the basis of the facts, he was just going to go into court and not say anything about the facts. He worked for and was paid by the Florida court system. He was going to do what they wanted, not defend me. It was totally absurd.

Seeing I wasn't scared to go to trial, the prosecutors dropped my fine to $75 if I would plead guilty to their non-crime. No, sleeping is free, why would I want to pay the city seventy five bucks every time they cought me sleeping?

We picked a jury. One asked the judge, "Are we to understand this man is going on trial for sleeping in his car?"

"Yes." the judge answered. It sounded silly to waste court time and money for what should be a non-crime. Three jurors didn't bother to show up for the trial the next day. The prosecutors, hating homelessness because the town bigshots think that it hurts tourist profits for them, gave me ANOTHER court date. I didn't care, I was hurting them in the pocket book. A few weeks later they quietly dropped my case all together, nul prossed it, in legalese. I guess the cops and the courts must've wasted a few thousand dollars on my horrible "sleeping crime," for nothing. Too bad. My heart is breaking.