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This happened to me on a larger scale. I bought a car online through an escrow service. I was sent to a site that was buyerpotector.com. It was a mirror image of buyerprotector.com (check the spelling to figure out the scam). I called local cops and used a friend with an IT background to track down the ISP. We got to Georgia and the "operator" of the site was a senile woman in a nursing home. Went down to the next layer of this scheme and got to Eastern Europe. Short of calling the FBI there was no recourse. Long story short, if your convinced you were scammed by an overseas company cancel the card you used IMMEDIATELY and cut your losses.
Little background, I'm a public defender. If you want to be a probation officer or an attorney I say go for some kind of post-grad degree. If you want to be a cop there is no need whatsoever. If you have come to your senses and decided you want to make money, look at what the next best move is. If you want to be an academic, quit wasting your time.
Dan hopped off the roof and looked around the outside of the building to see if there were any obvious signs that someone had forced an entry as of late.
I read the first post of this thread. I was excited. I wanted to jump into the legal nitty gritty and explain why this is a horrible law. Bitterroot beat me to it. Fortunately for those lacking formal legal training, Bitterroot explained everything better than I could. Instead I will chime in with a moral objection to this law.
This law coddles college students. It goes forward with the base presumption that college students are hormonal beasts who "hook up" constantly with relative strangers. I had sex with three people all throughout college. One of them lived with me for two years. She was my first and thus far only real love. Going to such great ends in order to protect victims (realistically, woman) reiterates the concept that sex is a predatory act. Young adults should move past these notions in college, not have them reinforced. The very language of the bill treats young adults who are at or around marrying age (in many parts of this country) like children and views their very real and powerful romantic relationships as petty.
I will add one legal quip that I do not think has been addressed yet. I don't see anything wrong with dropping the standard below beyond a reasonable doubt in these hearings. That is a very high legal standard reserved almost exclusively for criminal courts. What I do object to is the complete lack of procedural safeguards for the accused. Matthews v Eldridge set up a test that the government must comply with before denying someone a once granted right (college education has been included in the past, including disciplinary tribunal procedures for students). *The test balances (1) the importance of the interest at stake; (2) the risk of an erroneous deprivation of the interest because of the procedures used, and the probable value of additional procedural safeguards; and (3) the government's interest. If this test fails deprivation of the due process right (here a state college education) is unconstitutional. I think with such lax standards, the ability for 3rd party reporting and the alternatives available to the government to meet the same ends, greater protections for the accused are required. Don't ask me what those should be.
* Stole that sentence verbatim from legal-dictionary.com
Dan darted to the soot on the opposite edge of the roof and looked at the street level below him, seeing if there were any signs of the thief and if his descent to the ground could be made safely.
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This law coddles college students. It goes forward with the base presumption that college students are hormonal beasts who "hook up" constantly with relative strangers. I had sex with three people all throughout college. One of them lived with me for two years. She was my first and thus far only real love. Going to such great ends in order to protect victims (realistically, woman) reiterates the concept that sex is a predatory act. Young adults should move past these notions in college, not have them reinforced. The very language of the bill treats young adults who are at or around marrying age (in many parts of this country) like children and views their very real and powerful romantic relationships as petty.
I will add one legal quip that I do not think has been addressed yet. I don't see anything wrong with dropping the standard below beyond a reasonable doubt in these hearings. That is a very high legal standard reserved almost exclusively for criminal courts. What I do object to is the complete lack of procedural safeguards for the accused. Matthews v Eldridge set up a test that the government must comply with before denying someone a once granted right (college education has been included in the past, including disciplinary tribunal procedures for students). *The test balances (1) the importance of the interest at stake; (2) the risk of an erroneous deprivation of the interest because of the procedures used, and the probable value of additional procedural safeguards; and (3) the government's interest. If this test fails deprivation of the due process right (here a state college education) is unconstitutional. I think with such lax standards, the ability for 3rd party reporting and the alternatives available to the government to meet the same ends, greater protections for the accused are required. Don't ask me what those should be.
* Stole that sentence verbatim from legal-dictionary.com