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BDCBHamilton Nolan
4/04/16 2:22pm
I have never understood the benefit of having parallel state and federal court systems in the modern age. Why not just mush them together? Also, police powers should not be the prerogative of state governments. Police should be nationalized and they should roll up to the Justice Department somehow.
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  caekislove-caekingitupBDCB
  4/04/16 2:27pm
  Because the founding fathers wrote some stuff that we’re bound by forever and ever amen or else the terrorists win and lex luthor owns metropolis.
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  BDCBcaekislove-caekingitup
  4/04/16 2:28pm
  Point taken.
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butcherbakertoiletrymakerHamilton Nolan
4/04/16 2:06pm
Hey @Paterk, tell me again how the South, particularly South Carolina, is unjustly maligned! Oh, that’s right, it’s because all those scapegoated Southerners are being told by uppity Northerners how shitty they are, because they couldn’t POSSIBLY be responsible for their own actions.
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  festivusazilibutcherbakertoiletrymaker
  4/04/16 2:16pm
  Are you shouting at somebody on twitter from kinja? I don’t think they can hear you.
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igotwordsHamilton Nolan
4/04/16 2:24pm
force defendants who can’t afford to pay fines to instead serve time in jail

So... debtor’s prison?

Debtor’s prison.
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  swishswishswishswishigotwords
  4/04/16 2:42pm
  They’re in contempt of court, we can’t have debtor’s prisons.
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  igotwordsswishswishswishswish
  4/04/16 3:01pm
  IT really doesn’t matter what you call it... prison time is prison time. Let me throw you in a cell for failure to pay, and see if you care what it’s called.
  
  Punishing the poor for being poor is the favorite pass time of a lot of folks in this country.
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Dave Hamilton Nolan
4/04/16 2:16pm
Look people, we’ve been clear about this time and again: The ONLY important Amendment is the 2nd and that part of the 1st that says Jesus is the Official Sky Wizard of ‘Murca. I am getting tired of explaining this.
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  Johnny ChundersDave
  4/04/16 2:24pm
  Do you see any soldiers quartered around here? No? That only means that The Big Third is in full effect.
  
  Better recognize.
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Low Information BoaterHamilton Nolan
4/04/16 2:04pm
I'm beginning to think that South Carolina might have some unresolved issues left over from the war of northern aggression.
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GeorgeGeoffersonLivesHamilton Nolan
4/04/16 2:17pm
I just looked it up because I was interested, but we have just four municipal courts in Michigan, all in the old-money Pointes right outside of Detroit. Most cities decided to switch to regular district courts when those were legislated into existence in 1961. How many does South Carolina have?

We also still have magistrates in district courts, but they are under supervision of a chief judge in a district court. Is this not also the case in SC?
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  GeorgeGeoffersonLivesGeorgeGeoffersonLives
  4/04/16 2:28pm
  Nevermind, found that there are about 200 magistrate courts (with 312 magistrate judges) and another 200 municipal courts (249 municipal judges) in the state of South Carolina.
  
  Sweet mother of god. Yeah, this is different than my state, and this is a gross abuse of the idea of municipal/local courts.
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  swishswishswishswishGeorgeGeoffersonLives
  4/04/16 2:40pm
  It’s not that so much as that they’re horribly outdated - recall that once upon a time people got around on horse and buggy (or foot) on really crappy roads - going to the county seat might be a multi-day journey in and of itself - and so, municipal courts were born to deal with the less serious stuff.
  
  It’s called the circuit court because those judges used to actually ride around on a circuit visiting places periodically in order to conduct judicial proceedings, anywho...
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Fred SmithHamilton Nolan
4/04/16 2:39pm
Anyone who’s ever been caught in this poverty spiral knows how Kafkaesque it can be. Can’t pay a parking ticket, turns into the car getting towed, turns into losing your job, before you can even bat an eye. When you throw criminal charges into the mix, it gets even more nightmarish. Buddy of mine was just arrested for an outstanding warrant from 1992! It was a bench warrant for failure to appear to pay a parking ticket. Turns out he had paid the ticket, but there was an administrative glitch, and he was ordered to appear in court to pay the summons. When he didn’t appear, because he had already paid the ticket, the warrant was issued in a town where he lived for 9 months. Moved away and had no idea until he was arrested last weekend. Would’ve spent the weekend in jail if he couldn’t afford to post bail.
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Executor ElassusHamilton Nolan
4/04/16 2:35pm
Spoiler: I’ll bet money the vast majority of the people who end up in these courts are POCs who get hauled in on bullshit charges and are then locked into the criminal justice system (and out of being productive members of society) forever after.
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ReburnsABurningReturnsHamilton Nolan
4/04/16 2:32pm
You know guys, if you want me to read your little picture things, maybe don’t make them overly large. It makes it hard to load the page and my attention span is just so short.
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MagicallySuspiciousHamilton Nolan
4/04/16 2:47pm
I work in the legal field in SC, and I’ve previously worked in criminal defense. I can tell you that everything in that article is accurate, and more allarming, it’s not even scratching the surface of the problems in my lovely homeland.
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