What a stinking pile this case is!
They need to give the man back his drivers license and refund his $6,000 immediately.
Then he needs to sue the bastards for putting him in jail in the first place.
What a travesty.
This judge needs to be impeached.
Sadly, this is the state of ‘justice’ in America, and has been for a very long time.
Many people on FR believe in “the rule of law”.
Unfortunately for them, they would be quite shocked by just how much our so-called justice system exists merely to extort money from citizens.
The reason why people with money can buy their way out of most any legal trouble is because the system has been manipulated to be that way on purpose. It exists primarily to justify and feed its own existence.
Legal problems?
Go to jail... or pay a fine and heavy court fees to the state and walk.
And more often than not, the crime is either trumped up or over-hyped in the first place. It is amazing how completely unrecognizable the prosecution’s case can be from reality when presented in court. And let’s not forget, the prosecutor, public defender, and judge all work for the same boss: the State.
Somehow I don’t think that is what the founding fathers really had in mind.
The court agreed that Hatley had to comply with the consent agreement for the period he believed the child was his son, said attorney Latesha Bradley..."
His mistake was to acknowledge the child as his for any period and especially in writing without DNA PROOF. That said, what happened to this man is an outrage. The situation in child support cases in utterly rigged against the man.
” A Georgia man who spent a year in jail for nonpayment of child support —
despite the fact he has no children — has been cleared of the debt,
his attorney said Tuesday.”
“It’s a small world after all!”
As this very evening late at night (about 11PM), I saw a commercial
by a law firm in Mid-Missouri actually run a societally-useful
advert to drum up business.
From the advert, all I can tell is that there is a short-lived
provision that allows males (who else?; and I can say that as I “are one”)
to legally demand DNA testing of themselves and the purported off-spring
to make sure of paternity (or NON-paternity).
I have to give Missouri credit. Unless they’ve had some major change
since 2005 when I fled, California was famed for delivering default judgement
to males when some female they hardly knew (and sometimes never
“made whoopy” with) would name them as the father of their child.
And the California judicial/court system refused to allow the male
saddled for up to 18 years of child-support statement to demand and
receive the result of a paternity test to see if “Papa” actually be
“on the hook” and that the child was actually the guy’s offsping.
This was an ugly legacy of former and charismatic Los Angeles
District Attorney Gil Garcetti.
He’s a decent photographer...probably a better one than he was
a District Attorney.
Not a SHRED of common sense exhibited here.
Indeed, it is true. “The law is an ass”
So is this Judge.
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It should be illegal for any woman to make child-support claims if she was not married to the “father” at the alleged time of conception, unless the “father” has been convicted of rape.