A St. Louis man who racked up nearly $6,000 in unpaid parking tickets wants two of his cars out of impound—and his attorney Bevis Schock says he’s entitled to those vehicles, citing what Schock says is ambiguity in the city’s municipal code.
“There’s a rule in the law, sometimes called a doctrine, called the rule of lenity. The word relates to the word leniency,” he said. “Any time there’s an ambiguity, it’s always ruled in favor of the person charged with the offense.”
In that case, the person charged with 63 parking violations is Keiono Sutton, who was in St. Louis Circuit Court yesterday morning as Schock argued the Downtown West resident ought to get his Toyota Yaris and Dodge Voyager returned…