It was a slow day in Judge Bean's associate circuit court until Miss Langtry was brought in to be arraigned. A widow of advanced but unrevealed age, a deacon at the town's First Church of the Really Repentant, and the
owner of a large department store downtown, she was charged with repeatedly parking in the no parking
zone in front of her store. At the current time she had 17 outstanding warrants for failure to appear in court
to answer the tickets. The prosecutor, who wanted to show that no one is exempt from the law because of
their standing in the community, had charged her with a misdemeanor under the state's repeat offender
statute. When asked, Miss Langtry pled "not guilty' to the charges, saying she had been parking in the spot
for 38 years. The prosecutor, still on a crusade, requested that bail be set at $10,000 to ensure that she
would appear for the trial.
Would Judge Bean be justified in granting the defense's request that Miss Langtry be given a R. O.R. in this
case? Why or why not?