re: What would you have done? Neighbor situation

I had neighbors like that man... Thank god they moved out a couple years ago now. But about 6-8 months before they moved, I went through the whole trespassing thing with them. I had to go in their yard for maybe 30 seconds around 8-9 pm to get, I think a basketball out of there yard. Sure enough, cops come (they called the cops over literally any small thing...)

Anyway, I end up having to follow the cops to the courthouse to get fingerprinted and a ticket.. They also decided to take this all the way to court! So since the law changed and I openly admitted to going to MY belonging off their property, I still went onto their property without permission... So now I have a trespassing charge because of an a-hole neighbor!