Thank you, I wasn’t aware of that. The problem here is the State is clearly using the civil courts as a criminal court proxy. The Letitia James case is in civil court because she knows it would never make it through criminal court.
The Carrol case is similar in nature, look at the first trial where the jury actually issued a verdict regarding if a rape took place.
I’m in no way a legal scholar, but it seems to me when civil courts are meting out punishment in the way of punitive damages they are acting as a de facto criminal proceeding.
Thank you, I wasn’t aware of that. The problem here is the State is clearly using the civil courts as a criminal court proxy. The Letitia James case is in civil court because she knows it would never make it through criminal court.
The Carrol case is similar in nature, look at the first trial where the jury actually issued a verdict regarding if a rape took place.
I’m in no way a legal scholar, but it seems to me when civil courts are meting out punishment in the way of punitive damages they are acting as a de facto criminal proceeding.