Both were allowed to make phone calls. Daniels reached his mother who came down and paid the $500. He left on bail and was given a summons to appear in court for an arraignment the following week. Rogers wasn't as successful. She was too embarrassed to call her parents, and none of the friends she phoned were home so she spent the night in jail.

Rogers spent two hours in the courthouse lockup waiting for Judge Diana Benjamin to call her case. When the case was finally called, a bailiff led Rogers into the courtroom. Still handcuffed, Rogers stood before the judge and waited. Judge Benjamin was looking over some papers and talking with her clerk. Rogers stood waiting. She heard the judge ask her clerk for another cup of coffee, then look down and say, "Rogers?"