" "If exposure of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty," said Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge John Debelius 3rd, reversing a lower court's ruling. The case stemmed from a June 7 feud between Raymond Hugh McNealy, 44, and his neighbor, Nanette Vonfeldt. After some heated words, Vonfeldt said McNealy mooned her and her 8-year-old daughter outside their apartment in Germantown. A lower court found McNealy guilty, but McNealy's lawyers appealed, noting that indecent exposure in Maryland is defined as a person willfully exposing his or her private parts - which, the lawyers argued, does not include a person's buttocks. Indecent exposure in Maryland carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $1,000 fine. The decision about the moon over Maryland left some howling in protest, including local prosecutors. "This was a grown man exposing himself to an 8-year-old girl," Senior Assistant State's Attorney Dan Barnett told The Washington Post. Chalk it up to Maryland's state motto, which is "Manly Deeds, Womanly Words.