Magically enough, our system of jurisprudence managed to fix this one without JAIL
From today's Rapid City Journal:
How? How did us poor fools manage to right this judicial wrong without J.A.I.L.?
Well, duh. Actually, it was pretty easy. It's called the appeals process. That's why we have it, and we managed to accomplish it without any Special Grad Jury or two star Jailers-in-chief.
And it didn't take an amendment.
A judge gave a Pennington County man an illegal sentence when ordering him to pay about $4,300 for tax evasion, the state Supreme Court said Thursday in a unanimous ruling. The decision overturns the restitution requirement for Steven E. Thayer, who pleaded guilty last year to a felony count of not paying sales taxes for Villa Cleaners of Box Elder.Read it all here.
The written sentence was flawed because it unlawfully increased the sentence that Thayer was given in the courtroom, the state Supreme Court said, overturning the restitution requirement.
How? How did us poor fools manage to right this judicial wrong without J.A.I.L.?
Well, duh. Actually, it was pretty easy. It's called the appeals process. That's why we have it, and we managed to accomplish it without any Special Grad Jury or two star Jailers-in-chief.
And it didn't take an amendment.
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Is that your child pictured on the front page of the Register?
Maybe you could figure out a way to print a NEW t-shirt for her next year.