To: Texas Fossil
Im looking at this from the opposite side mainly because Ive been thinking about the ramifications of this coronavirus fiasco on law enforcement.
If an accused criminal is awaiting trial and the courthouse is shut down under the orders of a governor or president, then what happens? He cant be detained indefinitely. Is the prosecutor forced to drop the charges?
20 posted on
03/22/2020 7:37:27 AM PDT by
Alberta's Child
("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
To: Alberta's Child
I don’t know.
I live in a county that has less than 6,000 people. We don’t have or expect an overload.
21 posted on
03/22/2020 7:41:02 AM PDT by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: Alberta's Child
If an accused criminal is awaiting trial and the courthouse is shut down under the orders of a governor or president, then what happens? He can’t be detained indefinitely. Is the prosecutor forced to drop the charges? Yup. The law is the law, or it's not. If they can't bring the accused before a judge, he should be freed. When the government overreacts and becomes arguably insane, there are adverse consequences. Let them contemplate that while they are declaring that we are nothing but serfs to be ordered about at will by any level of government that has also lost it's collective mind.
57 posted on
03/22/2020 12:58:34 PM PDT by
zeugma
(I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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