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jaxexpat

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2. It is meaningless! Headline should read, "jury awards fantasy penalty to be paid by indigent prison inmate....
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 07:00 AM
Nov 21

attorneys say, 'justice has been done with straight face (and my invoice is in the mail)'."

Where is the deterrent? Where is the justice? Why does anyone in this country presume lawsuits are proper responses to all offenses, even capital crimes. Why, are we composed of folks with such low thresholds for critical thinking skills that we actually believe a ridiculously high dollar amount award is anything but a shameful display to advertise greed as the national justice of choice? Hell, they won't even jail Guliani for thumbing his nose and refusing to "pay until broke" for his treason.

Courts are simply a willing participant in fraud when they use their courtroom time to showcase this sort of "entertainment". There is no "honor", your honor, when you slam your gavel down on this shit.

We all know that if the black dude, the one she drunkenly killed, had been the shooter, he'd be on death row, if not already executed.

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