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When I’m not working as the doorman at the West Easton council meetings, I can be found transporting special needs children on a school bus.

My route takes me past the Northampton County Courthouse where I sometimes see known local political players, notorious bloggers, or self-proclaimed Pro Se Legal Eagles coming and going.

Yesterday was one of those days where our local Pro Se faux genius was seen and it found me wondering what new law would be made, wrong overturned, or accused conspiracy participant brought to justice. So, rather than scour through spider web covered documents in an Indiana Jones-like government storage facility, I simply asked around.

Apparently, West Easton resident Tricia Mezzacappa appeared before a Judge yesterday with a  scribbled handwritten precipe that sought to have a very recent $300 fine for harassment reduced.

Here’s why she found herself once again trying to out maneuver the justice system.

Following the loss of a harassment case last year in which Mezzacappa was found guilty of harassing a former West Easton Borough clerk, Judge Yetter fined her only $200 of a maximum $300 that he could have imposed.

Mezzacappa filed an appeal of that conviction, which was finally heard last month. Judge Craig Dally, who heard the appeal, did find Judge Yetter to be wrong – in a way that wasn’t so beneficial to Mezzacappa.

After hearing the facts surrounding the case not only did he decide to let the conviction stand, but increased the fine to the maximum $300.

So, Mezzacappa was in front of yet another Judge yesterday claiming the $300 fine was too harsh. She wanted the fine reduced.

She even tried to deal community service for herself. She would work 10 hours at the DUI Center in lieu of the fine.

She must have thought it was a deal that the court wouldn’t refuse, considering that equates to only $30/hr.

And a Pro Se Legal Eagle who claims to be a Mensan must be worth at least $200/hr?

Suffice it to say, the fine remained at $300.