Posted on 11/30/2016 5:49:51 PM PST by artichokegrower
San Francisco’s chief judge says he and his colleagues discarded 66,000 arrest warrants issued over five years for quality-of-life crimes, like sleeping on the sidewalk, because it made no sense to lock people up for fines they couldn’t afford.
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So in California if I am a productive member of society I have to pay 100% of my traffic tickets but if I am described as being low income my fine is reduced 80%. What happened to equal protection under the law?
“What happened to equal protection under the law?”
Shirley, you jest.
Sounds like a lawsuit in the making.
Don’t expect the State Attorney General Kamala Harris to prosecute that case. She only pursues PC issues that Gov. Brown , the Globalists and the Greens would approve of.
I was at traffic court in Santa Cruz:
First guy up at the mic is a hispanic guy there for a citation for driving with no license.
RIGHT away the Judge addresses the whole courtroom, “Can I see a show of HANDS for how many are here for that same offense...?”
They all look at him with ribbons of drool coming from the corners of their mouths as the question is translated into Spanish.
A SEA of hands shoots skyward.
“For those with their hands raised, line up at the clerk’s station, I am BULK dismissing your citations, you are here for no reason other than the way the law is written...”
AND THAT WAS THAT..!!!
And then I was suddenly alone in the courtroom, with just 5 or 6 other honkies for fleecing.
“If the executive and legislative branches can do it, so can we!”
Yep, separation of powers is anathema to a socialist government.
A lawsuit would have to be brought by a private citizen through an attorney.
“Stewart said the judges have chosen the best alternative available and don’t plan to resume issuing warrants. Still, he said, “people in the neighborhood have a right to be upset.””
I can only wish that someone urinates in the judges courtroom
Yeah it does, it makes all the sense in the world. Arrest them and make them work off the fines. Pardoning criminality creates an incentive to commit more crimes. You would think a judge would know this all too well.
Kamala Harris is now a Senator elect. Now I’m gonna be sick again.
Fleecing is one of the few things big gov-co sees us productive working people good for.
You shoulda raised your hand.
I couldn’t really “afford” any of the fines i have had to pay. I was required to pay them anyway. I think that is the point of fines. If they were easily affordable, many people would disregard the laws.
Damn, I forgot.
I hear she’s difficult to work with, almost as bad as Hillary. Rumor is, she’s really not even an American.
This is further proof most laws are in place to extract $$$ for government to waste.
Everyone please remember this simple reality when you receive a jury summons.
He never jests. And don’t call him Shirley.
But they vote. And 4 of 5 of the Mexicans there IN THE COURT ROOM were illegal aliens.
They should just s top enforcing the law altogether.
See how that works.
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