Depends on how much premium you pay on the bail, and to whom.
but they didn’t give me ba…
There are detriments besides the bail…
actually, I had a hyperbole disclaimer in my first post that got eaten by the net.
I can’t cite studies, which would be virtually impossible to do, since it would involve going around and following up on) the vast amount of illegally obtained evidence which never becomes the subject of a motion to suppress because of resource limitations on the defense side.
The best index is to be found by parsing the transcripts of unsuccessful motion hearings, and marvelling at the bullshit stories that are routinely swallowed by judges ruling the sai evidence in. (vide, inter alia, the excuse given by the OJ dectectives for their warrantless vault of the wall surrounding his estate which led to the recovery of the glove that did not fit…)
Once you see what judges WILL pretend to believe, you will get a sense for the lenient parameters of verisimilitude which constrain (barely) the imagination of arrestin officers.
I believe Dersh (who I detest for other reasons) has touched on the question tangentially in his formultioh “testilying”,
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More to the point, just ask Bricker–no friend of the left he, (altho we live in hope; it appears that a nutritional deficiency (insufficient consumption of ergot) may lie at the root of his dementia, and he may yet be rescued from the slough of despond in which he finds himself.) I intend to organize an intervention as soon as I can acquire the necessaries, which have become sadly difficult to find, even in the halcyon climes of Freedonia (aka Baghdad by the Bay)
Yow! I don’t know when you became a Democrat, but when I did there was certainly no ergot or byproducts thereof involved. I don’t think solving this particular deficiency in Bricker’s diet will help anyone. Far out, man!
Confirming what I’ve suspected all along… you have to be on 'shrooms to be a Democrat.
actually,* mushrooms are in realtively plentiful supply–it is the distilled lysergic fruit of the ergotized grain which has been driven underground.
Parenthetically, the sainted . Albert Hoffman, to whom I owe my very life, still walks the earth at the age of 100, proving that good deeds preserve the holy.
THE SATURDAY PROFILE; Nearly 100, LSD’s Father Ponders His ‘Problem Child’
By CRAIG S. SMITH
Published: January 7, 2006
(*oddly ,( or perhaps not oddly), I seem to catch a lot more pussy when mushrooms have, so to speak, taken the rough edges off my personality) It isn’t easy being barbaric…, as Kermit the Frog used to say, or something like that…)
" became a Democrat," " you have to be on 'shrooms to be a Democrat."
Not to disappoint, but I did say “left”.
Democrats are the left only by comparison to the screamingravingloonies of america, aka repugnacans.
I am seriously left, not democratic party left. The last democrat I had any real use for died like a dog on the kitchen floor of the ambassador hotel, and with him the last best hope of the world died too.
Good enough. As long as you acknowledge the inaccuracy in your statements, I’m fine. I have no desire to wade through your cut and paste crap, irrelevant cites, and senseless rambling.
right then, we both have what we want…
I’m guessing that “knowing their actions are criminal” is the operative factor. My girlfriend, an MD with a complex consulting business and very possibly the most ethical creature on the planet, is a coin magnet anytime we’re walking down the street. Lucky pennies everywhere she looks, and often dimes and quarters.
She saves receipts on every transaction, logs every trip in her car, and is meticulous with her billing and income recordkeeping. But I’m sure she omits the currency she collects from the street.
Criminal?
Strike that last post. Sorry, failed to finish reading the thread…
I doubt it. How much currency, in total, does she find in a year?
Thanks for these comments. I have always believed like the OP-everyone breaks the law every day just by living a normal life. The law has become so complicated that it just seemed reasonable. Your challenge to that assumption has made me think there might be another explanation-that people don’t break the law just by existing. A novel thought.
Now I still suspect that my original belief is accurate, but I have to come up with some examples before I can make the claim. I’m thinking…
Well, scrupulosity is being compulsively obsessed with the various guidelines of the church or other institution you may be part of. It is more common in people who are OCD in general, and are part of a church with more guidelines, such as Catholicism or Orthodox Judaism. For example, a scrupulous Catholic may go to Confession many times a week because they didn’t do it exactly right, or to absolve themselves of perceived offenses which they are obsessing over.
I could make an estimate, but ignorance might be prudent, eh?