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Oh yes, you often hear about small time drug dealers taking the person who wronged them to small claims court for other matters.
by talldatethrow 3y ago
Oh yes, you often hear about small time drug dealers taking the person who wronged them to small claims court for other matters.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoAbout as often as you hear about it for anyone else. It's called bargaining in the shadow of the law. If you have the ability to take someone to court, they know that too, and know you'd win, so they're willing to settle up with you peacefully rather than both of you incurring the costs of going to court. When a small time drug dealer's car needs service covered under warranty, they don't go in and threaten the dealership with violence, they drop off the car and expect the dealership to honor the contract. Which the dealership does in the same way as they do for anyone else, because the dealership doesn't know anything about their extracurricular criminal activity and can't use it to renege on their obligations by threatening to turn them in to the police.