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It sounds like the filing of the appeal caused the reporting date to be pushed back automatically. She is not (yet) a fugitive; she’s just pulling all the lever
by gnicholas 4y ago
It sounds like the filing of the appeal caused the reporting date to be pushed back automatically. She is not (yet) a fugitive; she’s just pulling all the levers to delay as long as possible.
> The appeal automatically delays her reporting date, and she will now remain out of prison until a court of appeals rules on her request.
- hinkley 4y agoMaybe I'm not looking at some bigger picture thing here but this seems like the sort of thing that should have interest payments involved. 15% APR on all time served. If you tie your sentence up in court for 2 years you owe the general public an extra 33% jail time.
- gnicholas 4y agoSo if the judge makes a bad ruling and you have to appeal, then you'd owe more time?
- hinkley 4y agoYou don’t owe time if you’re exonerated.
- gnicholas 4y agoTrue, but it makes it that much riskier to appeal. You can end up losing on procedural grounds, and then you're extra screwed. As a (former) lawyer my gut tells me this might be ruled unconstitutional, on account of due process rights and the presumption of innocence. But it's an interesting idea, and one I've never heard before.
- hinkley 4y agoI don’t think you’re wrong that there are unintended consequences there. Thats the problem with politics. The simple solutions are wrong, and everybody hates how goddamned complicated the less wrong solutions are (and enough people hate compromise on principle so they sandbag the whole process).