On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > Scott, the ruling makes no distinction between different types of > jails. Further more, look at the actual person involved in the case. > He had an outstanding (though incorrect) warrant for a failure to pay > a fine. He had not been brought to trial and sentenced for the failure > to pay that fine yet. Obviously, they let him go when they found out > that the warrant was incorrect.
I understand the ruling made no distinction, but you made a comment about strip searching 100 protesters after being arrested. I was trying to clarify what happened to this man. He was not brought to the local police department and strip searched there. Most local police departments or precincts do not have a 'general population' - its typically no more than one or two cells depending on area. > > The guy was still in a jail directly from being picked up off the > street. He had not been through a trial and then reported to serve his > sentence. The fact that it was a county jail and not a city jail is > irrelevant. It's the same scenario in as in a city jail and the ruling > makes no differentiation between different types of incarceration. > This may not be completely accurate. If he had a warrant for his arrest for 'not paying a fine' it's possible that he was found 'guilty' and the warrant was a 'bench warrant'. Once again, I think the travesty is that he was put in jail when he should not have been, not that he was treated like a prisoner when he got there. -- Scott Stroz --------------- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris http://xkcd.com/386/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349378 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
