What happens if a prisoner doing life is successfully sued?
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-- wot -- — 2 years ago(October 07, 2023 01:26 PM)
I cant imagine the fact that he or she is in prison would stop them from being sued in America, land of the lawsuit….
So if the claimant WINS, how does the prisoner pay? does he/she have to pay it out of their 65c a week work wage in jail?
Also, what happens if someone like Christina or Ginny…..or ME….. get sued? people who have no prospects of employment at all? ( no offence gals but you know it's true )
Can the courts legally garnish some of their benefit money? -
-- wot -- — 2 years ago(October 07, 2023 01:44 PM)
tl'dr = America is just stupid
Btw why would a prisoner be sued and what for?
Because it is America, you can try sue anyone for anything.
For example, around 2010 a dude who was running away from police barged his way into a random home in Topeka Kansas, he had a knife on him, he asked the couple who were in the house if they can hide him and he would give them some money at the end of it
The couple, being terrified of this random guy with a knife, agreed. They gave him some food, watched TV with him and then when the knife guy fell asleep they made their escape and alerted police.
The knife man ended up getting shot during the arrest. He later tried to sue the couple for BREACH OF CONTRACT…..because they " agreed " to hide him for money and then sold him out to cops…
and guess WHY his case failed? Not because it is obviously a stupid ing case and should never have seen the inside of a courtroom, but because he said he would give them SOME money, but did not say a specific amount, meaning it cannot be considered a verbal contract because legally, contracts involving money has to be exact amounts…
Now obviously, the guys law suite failed, but the victims still had to sit through what must have been HOURS of litigation.
so yeah, lawyers actually took on this case and an actual judge presided over it, when it should have been laughed out of court….
so there are many reasons for a convict to be sued, maybe one of his victims has decided years later that they are in fact traumatised by happened and want some money…maybe an injury cased to the victim stopped them form getting a certain job years later…….. like that. -
-- wot -- — 2 years ago(October 07, 2023 01:51 PM)
Did you really just tldr me and then give a research paper in response? Gtfo
errr, what?
tl'dr can be used both ways, you can say it at the start of your OWN post if your post is a wee bit long, or you can say it to someone who has given YOU a long reply, I was doing the former….