Quote Originally Posted by Irulan View Post
having been on the jury on negligent death cases, fines are in part supposed to be punishment, not restitution.
I'm not a lawyer, don't play one on TV etc but if fines are are part of the punishment and I think I read somewhere they are then doesn't planning the fines, calculating his ability to pay etc before trial or even charges mean we're skipping that whole radical activist Constitutional "guilty until proven innocent beyond a" thang?

If they find me with the body, with my loaded slingshot, rubber band scars on my wrist from the sling shot and decide "no, we're not gonna book her for killing that @zzhole driver who cut her off because she has a phobia of being in the upper bunk bed and could never make it in a cell for the length of a murder sentence"

Guilty until proven and then we figure it all out is at least what I thought we do I could be wrong.

(I'm not saying he is innocent, sounds like he done it)