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so now we have the media wanting the crime of bouncing checks to be considered a non criminal offense? get real. he bounced checks, and that is a crime in ANY state.
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Originally Posted by PedroMartinez
He's not being incarcerated for owing money but for writing bad checks - which is basically fraud.
It's like shoplifting. You're not arrested for owing money for what you stole, but for the action of stealing it.
If the hospital send him a bill, and he just didn't pay it, he would not have been arrested for that debt.
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Originally Posted by pghquest
A bounced check is a felony.. it doesnt matter what the hell its for. Write a check for a big mac and bounce it.. you GO TO JAIL..
its THEFT OF SERVICES.. cancer is immaterial.
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Originally Posted by shadowne
Sensationalist thread title intending to deceive.
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Originally Posted by MyNameIsBellaMia
Thread title is a lie and should not be allowed.
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Originally Posted by Mack Knife
The thread is a setup for trolling. The person was not sent to jail for not paying the debt, they were sent for writing bad checks.
Huge difference and no pity for them. Just because someone has an illness does not give them any special consideration for writing bad checks.
They'll get free healthcare in jail.
Write a bad check in other countries and see what happens.
Nope, the charges are bouncing checks not failure to pay fines. When dingbat freeloader failed to pay the fines, he forgot that the fines were to mitigate the bounced checks penalty, jail time.
In other words, he was getting a break.
Since he then failed to pay the fines, his plea bargain in effect became null and void.
Its like paying a fine for a 100 mph speeding ticket. The court accepts a payment in lieu of some other penalty. You bounce a check. You are toast because the original penalty is no enforced. Jail time.
This is different than if the fines were levied for not paying the medical services, then he could stand on something.
Everything changed when he accepted the paying of a fine to avoid prosecution. Since he didn't hold up his end of the bargain, the prosecution goes forward.
What a clown that guy is. Cancer patient? Perhaps. Criminal? Absolutely
Do more DD than believing the first article that spams your inbox.
Nope, the charges are bouncing checks not failure to pay fines.
Robertson had been sentenced to a stretch in jail over outstanding fines.
It's odd how people are unable to understand plain words. It doesn't matter what the charges are for. He went to jail over not paying the fines. Unconstitutionally enacted ones perhaps at that.
He's soon going to be able to afford more than his fines.
We also need to note for those who have argued that the protests in Ferguson had no positive affects.
Similar practices exist in courts around the country, including in several cities in St. Louis County, which received attention for their debt collection practices following the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, two years ago. Groups like Equal Justice Under Law, ArchCity Defenders, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the American Civil Liberties Union have been mounting challenges to unconstitutional court practices in many parts of the nation.
Robertson had been sentenced to a stretch in jail over outstanding fines.
To be fair, since Huffpoo isn't too far off from the political version of The National Enquirer, most people aren't going to go much further than the highly deceptive headlines.
Had it been an honest (to the story) headline, it would have read "Man Jailed For Outstanding Court Fines".
We also need to note for those who have argued that the protests in Ferguson had no positive affects.
Similar practices exist in courts around the country, including in several cities in St. Louis County, which received attention for their debt collection practices following the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, two years ago. Groups like Equal Justice Under Law, ArchCity Defenders, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the American Civil Liberties Union have been mounting challenges to unconstitutional court practices in many parts of the nation.
I was waiting for you to drag the usual race baiting/anarchy blather etc into this. Seems it didn't take long.
Robertson had been sentenced to a stretch in jail over outstanding fines.
It's odd how people are unable to understand plain words. It doesn't matter what the charges are for. He went to jail over not paying the fines. Unconstitutionally enacted ones perhaps at that.
He's soon going to be able to afford more than his fines.
Whats odd is people reading some sensational headline then believing the text written by some agenda driven halfassed so called journalist and then trying to present that as fact here.
It matters 100% what the charges are for because it is those charges for which the penalty of jail is for, not what anyone else says Geesh. No one goes to jail because what anyone says except the court and the offical charges for which jail time is assessed.
This kind of story has made the rounds, it isn't the first one. Ran here thinking, oh boy, the big break. Sorry to bust the bubble, this same kind if story made the CD rounds some time ago, same narrative, same nonsense.
That story is full of gimmes. Words like "perhaps". Perhaps yes, pehaps no. Could mean anything but really means nothing.
To be fair, since Huffpoo isn't too far off from the political version of The National Enquirer, most people aren't going to go much further than the highly deceptive headlines.
Had it been an honest (to the story) headline, it would have read "Man Jailed For Outstanding Court Fines".
There is nothing deceptive about it.
How many times do I have to post this?
Robertson had been sentenced to a stretch in jail over outstanding fines.
I was waiting for you to drag the usual race baiting/anarchy blather etc into this. Seems it didn't take long.
LOL, did I drag it into the discussion or did I cut and paste from the actual article we are discussing? Am I to ask for your opinion on whether or not I can discuss the entire article or just the parts you approve?
Just let me know for the next time. (not that I care)
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