Liberty Rules

[Praetyre]

Well, in the case of someone not being able to pay, you could consider it a debt of sort, or we could reduce the sentence. Once again, common sense applied by the enforcers. And once again, underlevel players will be given a lot of leeway.

Plus, some crimes are more severe than others. Possessing Synthetic Marijuana is on a much lower level than stealing a Battleship, for example. How do you factor in that?

@Carmen Naso; Personal lawyers are people who try and find loopholes in the existing laws for their clients in the cases of criminal or civil defense or try to use the law to their advantage in cases of civil plaintiffhood. They are far more concerned with the judicial side of the law, except if it reaches to a constitutional level. The judiciary, if Liberty is anything like America, interprets the law, deciding sentences, it's specific applications, and so forth. The penal code itself is part of the legislature. Though there are some cases of judges in America striking down laws they view as unconstitutional, this behaviour is highly controversial and generally is applied to more specific laws (medical marijuana, eminent domain, homosexual marriages and the like) rather than more "common" laws like theft. No judge would strike down a law forbidding things like stealing military vehicles or impersonating generals as unconstitutional, and no lawyer would ever be able to argue against these kinds of laws in any US court. Cruel and unusual punishment exists, but financial penalties generally aren't regarded on the same level as the death penalty and waterboarding.

Governmental harassment or brutality in the application of the law occaisionally exists, but the majority of non-extreme behaviour is protected by qualified immunity. Wikipedia states;
"insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.". The current applications are simply imposing penalties people don't like, which you can hardly blame a police officer for. The job of the police is to enforce the law, the job of the judges is to interpret the law, and it's the job of Congress and the Senate to make the law.

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