Comments on: July 6 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/07/july-6-roundup-4/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:40:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Rohan https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/07/july-6-roundup-4/comment-page-1/#comment-93903 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:40:34 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=18075#comment-93903 The taxpayers of California (a state on the verge of bankruptcy, btw) will pay $20 million to the abducted woman and her children. Never mind the fact that for many years during her “abduction” she was free to walk away at any moment. The vote was nearly unanimous.

I have sympathy for her, and the police did make some mistakes, but unless you consider the state to be solely responsible for your welfare, this “gift” doesn’t make any sense. It also means that neither her, nor her children, nor her children’s children will ever need to work a day in their lives (same goes for their attorney). I don’t see how this is “healing” anything.

At the very least, I hope there are two caveats: 1) that some of the money will at least come from the estate of the couple that abducted her, and 2) if she makes any lucrative book/movie deals, she will pay the state back for the funds.

]]> By: Patrick https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/07/july-6-roundup-4/comment-page-1/#comment-93843 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:38:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=18075#comment-93843 I won’t say that I thought I couldn’t get any angrier at the state of policing in this country, because I knew I could.

The Skenazy link is worth a Two Minutes’ Hate all on its own.

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