On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > ps. the system is not just to give the defendant the time to declare > emself guilty; it's so e gets the time to consider and post eir defense > of innocence (with some officer help, it's possible for the case to go > from calling through to sentencing effectively instantly with no input > from the defense otherwise... an evil CotC could blot everyone out of > the game in a single message). -G.
In the old criminal system the sentence didn't take effect until a week had passed without appeals, which avoids that problem. -- -c.
