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Bill: Legal Aid Act 2359
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Conservative Conference
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2359
Description[?]:
| If we are to refuse payment for Defendants in criminal cases we are putting forward the face of a strong government on crime. We can use this as a detterent as well as other methods of detterency such as the death penalty. Let us start to make positive steps to reduce crime in this nation. *Harriet Newman, Shadow Internal affairs |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government provision of legal aid to the accused.
Old value:: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state.
Current: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state for defendants with low incomes.
Proposed: Legal representation is never paid for by the state.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:29:22, February 13, 2007 CET | From |  Democratic Party of Dorvik | To | Debating the Legal Aid Act 2359 |
| Message | This bill would decrease the legal protection of citizens but especially, strike hardest on poor & low-income people who may be imprisoned just because they didn't have a decent lawyer (if lawyer at all) to prove they are actually innocent. We oppose this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 111 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 157 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 31 |
| Random fact: "OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done player-to-player rather than party-to-party. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play". |
| Random quote: "I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love." - Mitt Romney |