In NY moving violations go to the State and parking violations go to the cities/township. Therefore, many townships will give you a reduced penalty of a version of a parking violation if you just show up and plead guilty. The benefit is no points and no insurance hit.
As a result they want as many people to show up and plead guilty as possible. I dunno GA traffic laws but I wonder if something similar is happening here.
A nearby county did not even offer that a couple years ago. I’m sure in their minds they’re just being “tough on crime” as opposed to just being hungry for the bag of richards they can go eat.
In civilized, normal places? No.
In certain places in the South? Yes.
In the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals? They’d rubber stamp it and try to say “… and if SCOTUS says this is unconstitutional, ignore them - we say it is, f those a-holes in DC, that’s not a legitimate court in the first place.”
With regard to the $1.4M speeding ticket, a local official says ““We do not issue that placeholder as a threat to scare anybody into court, even if this person heard differently from somebody in our organization”
If you get caught going more than 35mph over the limit, you have to appear before a judge. Fair enough. However the official offered no explanation of the fine other than it was automatically generated via their e-citation software.
Did Michael Bolton design that software?
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What?
That Michael Bolton?
Is he related??
It is possible that the program was based on laws stating that fines get doubled for successive arrests and maybe this particular speed is on their 7th offense or something.
Also: this is the first move. Speeder needs to negotiate downward from there.
That no talent ass clown?
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rn?
I celebrate the guy’s entire catalog.
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i don’t know why i have to change, he’s the one who sucks.
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Well there are two lineages of Jesus given (one in Matthew and one in Luke) and they do differ, but they do both include David.
They both include Joseph, too.
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It’s a bug in their system…but it’s been around for several years, and they still haven’t bothered fixing it.
well . . . if it’s not broke . . .
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that is bad lawyering
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I mean the remedy is pretty obvious: the owner is entitled to a cash payment for the value of the home plus contents minus whatever the salvage value is for the land (considering the condition it’s in).
Hopefully the company has good liability insurance. I wonder what sort of policy limits are typical though. Destroying a house and the contents therein is going to be a huge claim, obviously, but less than if they accidentally killed someone, I assume, so hopefully still well below policy limits.
Pretty WTF though. Maybe there needs to be stricter regulations around demolishing a property. Like the sheriff needs to come out to the property and sign off that they’re at the right place before any demolition occurs? And of course the cost of the sheriff’s time is baked into the cost of obtaining the permit in the first place.
Dunno… just brainstorming. I wonder how often stuff like that happens.
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