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proverbialwisdom

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Sat Mar 19, 2016, 04:50 PM Mar 2016

Justice Department Announces Resources to Assist State and Local Reform of Fine and Fee Practices

PRESS RELEASE: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-resources-assist-state-and-local-reform-fine-and-fee-practices

https://www.justice.gov/crt/file/832461/download

U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
Office for Access to Justice


Washington, D.C. 20530
March 14, 2016

Dear Colleague:

The Department of Justice (“the Department”) is committed to assisting state and local courts in their efforts to ensure equal justice and due process for all those who come before them...

Link from photo caption tip: http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/03/princeton_professors_arrest_exposes_need_to_decrim.html

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Justice Department Announces Resources to Assist State and Local Reform of Fine and Fee Practices (Original Post) proverbialwisdom Mar 2016 OP
Kick!!! Faux pas Mar 2016 #1
What happened in Ferguson is not unique Gothmog Mar 2016 #2
But we all know foreign elephants are scofflaws. How will we get them to pay their fines? Hoppy Mar 2016 #3
 

Hoppy

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3. But we all know foreign elephants are scofflaws. How will we get them to pay their fines?
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 05:31 PM
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Don't get excited, Bertha, its sarcasm.
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