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Unless you don't pay. If you refuse to pay after the fact, and decide you should have rights after all, then the retailer can send the police your signed admis
by mapt 12y ago
Unless you don't pay.
If you refuse to pay after the fact, and decide you should have rights after all, then the retailer can send the police your signed admission of guilt - at which point due process disappears. That admission represents credible blackmail material to get you to pay.
"Sign this sheet of paper that says you murdered someone and pay me $50,000, or I will accuse you of murder publicly"
Making this proposition is very likely a criminal offense independently of whether it would be a false police report or not.
- hurin 12y agoDoes that paper constitute admissible evidence in court? If so this is very dubiously legal and borders on blackmail. Although it's probably more likely that you can't sign away or admit guilt without correct legal procedure, and such documents are simply not worth anything (i.e. like user-agreements which supposedly say you waive your rights to legal action). Would be interesting to see someone with a legal background comment on this.