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So if the judge makes a bad ruling and you have to appeal, then you'd owe more time?
by gnicholas 4y ago
So 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).