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A jury found 20-year-old Amara Harris not liable today in an unusual civil trial involving two high school students, a set of disputed AirPods and a ticket issued by a Naperville police officer nearly four years ago.
The officer assigned to Harris’ former high school, Naperville North, wrote her a ticket in 2019, when she was 17, that accused her of stealing another girl’s AirPods. Harris and her lawyers had maintained that she picked up the other student’s AirPods accidentally, mistaking them for her own. She declined to pay a fine or settle the case.
Read the Tribune investigation — The Price Kids Pay: Ticketed at school.
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