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3. i still have rights when accused of a "civil infraction".
Wed Sep 20, 2017, 05:51 PM
Sep 2017

i understand that the "due process" is a different "due process" than in criminal court, but i'm still entitled to some kind of due process.

i think this is an area that the supreme court will eventually curtail a bit, i.e., governmental abuse of civil procedures to evade criminal due process, more notably in civil asset forfeiture cases. eventually. not that that's the issue being presented in this particular case....

in any event, i wasn't trying to make a legal argument, just saying that it doesn't feel like there's any semblance of justice to this process, which in turn means it's ripe for abuse. they could take a picture of parked cars and send their owners tickets for speeding, and how could anyone dispute even that?

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