On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 05:02:54AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > At fed / felony level, a commissary bonus might have > to flex to cover expected length of guilty time, > same for a "pay me for any private lawyer instead > of overloaded public defender on indigent". > Maybe there is a buy in price threshold that would > result in significantly more trials than some marginally > lesser price. You'd have to research that among > pre / pending / current / post offenders. > > A similar fun scheme... > Minor traffic tickets, like speed / equipment / heed traffic > control / paper, may average $150, even if pleading not guilty > just for sake of standing your day in court and losing for fun. > These are essentially fixed cost fixed maximum penalty trivial > offenses, so unlike fed / felony cases there is literally zero > additional risk to pleading not guilty and losing, compared > to pleading guilty. No matter the outcome, it's $150 or less. > So a gift of $10M is 66k tickets worth of "full coverage" repayment > regardless of outcome, or 33+k worth if also covering the average > lost wages of the two half days it takes to arraign and have a laugh > trial. That's enough to saturate even the largest of jurisdictions for years. > Include education pamphlet about possible lower cost outcomes... > dismissed lack of witness, negotiated down, jury nullification, etc > and a well heeled $10M protester could have a lot of laughs.
Rather than just laughs though, have a bigger plan. But fundamentally, you must work with people who you have established you can trust, or expect to be sold out otherwise... > And reaches far more people with your message in their hands > than the same $10M would at the fed level. > > Or blend it... $3M for traffic, $7M to any of those offenders > that ever end up committing a fed later on. > > With unused fed funds pending are to be invested for growth, > income peeled off and sent to the traffic / education fund, etc.
