Justice has a certain ring to it

A special prosecutor in Indiana could not have had worse timing for telling a judge that he had cleared him of theft for taking a college student’s ringing cellphone during a class the judge was teaching.

The prosecutor had just delivered his report in the judge’s courtroom, which has a sign ordering that cellphones be turned off, when his cellphone rang.

As luck would have it, the judge liked the prosecutor’s ring tone -- the song “I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)” -- and said “it was the perfect ending to this little annoyance.”