Because of a six-year statute of limitations, an appeals court dismissed a sex abuse lawsuits against a puppeteer who served as the voice of the “Sesame Street” character “Elmo” for decades. So reports New York’s Daily News.

April saw no shortage of controversial and unusual verdicts. Below are our Top 5. If you have any to add, weigh in below in the comments section.

The Queens District Attorney’s office is prosecuting a New York City taxi cab driver who allegedly avoided $28,000 in tolls on the RFK Bridge by tailgating closely behind the car in front of him and crossing through the bridge’s tollbooth before the barrier came down.

A Missouri appeals court must decide whether a convicted armed robber who was sentenced to 13 years behind bars in 2000—and spent those 13 years living the life of a free, model citizen after he never received instructions to report to prison—can be forced to serve his sentence now that the Missouri Department of Corrections has finally discovered the clerical error that let him slip through the cracks for so many years. So reports ABC News.