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- From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
- Subject: Re: Revenue collection, Aussie-style
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.042706.16656@informix.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 04:27:06 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.011324.19121@trl.oz.au> <15JAN199312075258@csa3.lbl.gov> <1j7cvbINNdce@hal.com>
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- Organization: Helen Keller Bondurant's Performance Driving School for the Blind
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- In article <1j7cvbINNdce@hal.com> crash@hal.COM (Chris Craddock) writes:
- >Well they get around this little piece of judicial logic by defining
- >most breaches of traffic laws as *misdemeanors* - not *crimes*. This
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- Not in California. In CA, there are main classes of crimes: felonies,
- misdemeanors, and infractions. Most traffic crimes are infractions.
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- >basically lets them do or say anything they want and the burden of
- >proof (of innocence) falls on the defendant instead of the state. A
- >fairly cute (and distasteful) piece of legal legerdemaine.
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- Again, not the case in CA, as far as the law is concerned. I realize that
- in Campbell, however, it's often enforced that way. ]-:
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- >Chris
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