"It’s not that judges don’t care, it’s that courts are there to provide a remedy where one party has injured another. If there is no actual injury (damages in legal parlance), then the court has no power to provide a remedy."
The court could enjoin the state police from continuing their policy and practice of allowing troopers to knowingly hold an incorrect charge against someone, especially when that charge has restrictions in one's freedoms that the correct charge would not. And we would absolutely want some punitive damages for such brazen oppression and the extreme inconvenience that was force on us to modify our daily lives.
"The court system is already overloaded just dealing with more substantive cases"
If they don't have time to deal with rights violations, then they shouldn't have time to enforce the original (minor) offense either. Just drop the whole fucking case, that would have been the best thing for everyone, but they're too focused on winning at all costs.
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"It’s not that judges don’t care, it’s that courts are there to provide a remedy where one party has injured another. If there is no actual injury (damages in legal parlance), then the court has no power to provide a remedy."
The court could enjoin the state police from continuing their policy and practice of allowing troopers to knowingly hold an incorrect charge against someone, especially when that charge has restrictions in one's freedoms that the correct charge would not. And we would absolutely want some punitive damages for such brazen oppression and the extreme inconvenience that was force on us to modify our daily lives.
"The court system is already overloaded just dealing with more substantive cases"
If they don't have time to deal with rights violations, then they shouldn't have time to enforce the original (minor) offense either. Just drop the whole fucking case, that would have been the best thing for everyone, but they're too focused on winning at all costs.