• @bennel
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      177 months ago

      I really hope that was a typo and they meant AND a payment of $15k because someone who posted $200k bail shouldn’t have a problem finding $15k to get out of a murder charge.

    • @grue
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      127 months ago

      How is the fine this absurdly low?

      Because it was set many decades ago and never adjusted for inflation.

      (I haven’t bothered to check if that’s true for this specific case, but it’s a pervasive problem throughout the US legal code so I’m hazarding a guess.)