Comments on: More erosion of due process http://www.saysuncle.com/2007/11/13/more_erosion_of_due_process/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:08:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: geekWithA.45 http://www.saysuncle.com/2007/11/13/more_erosion_of_due_process/comment-page-1/#comment-187497 geekWithA.45 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:41:31 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/11/13/more_erosion_of_due_process/#comment-187497 >>Ya know, they could just put some credit card readers in the police cars. In the words of Airboss, "they might as well just stretch out a big net by the side of the road for you to throw your wallet into as your drive by." >>Ya know, they could just put some credit card readers in the police cars.

In the words of Airboss, “they might as well just stretch out a big net by the side of the road for you to throw your wallet into as your drive by.”

]]> By: JKB http://www.saysuncle.com/2007/11/13/more_erosion_of_due_process/comment-page-1/#comment-187408 JKB Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:24:31 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/11/13/more_erosion_of_due_process/#comment-187408 Well, I don't know. I got a traffic ticket some years back in Pennsylvania. The fine was something like $20 but I paid $90 after fees and taxes, all permanently printed on the citation form. Well, I don’t know. I got a traffic ticket some years back in Pennsylvania. The fine was something like $20 but I paid $90 after fees and taxes, all permanently printed on the citation form.

]]> By: Standard Mischief http://www.saysuncle.com/2007/11/13/more_erosion_of_due_process/comment-page-1/#comment-187407 Standard Mischief Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:14:51 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/11/13/more_erosion_of_due_process/#comment-187407 Seventh Amendment <blockquote>In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.</blockquote> I think they got around this little bit of the supreme law of the land by utilizing the standard mischief of classifying parking tickets as uncommon law (or extra-common law or something). I think this bit works for tax court too. Seventh Amendment

In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

I think they got around this little bit of the supreme law of the land by utilizing the standard mischief of classifying parking tickets as uncommon law (or extra-common law or something). I think this bit works for tax court too.

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