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Bill: Defendant's Representation Rights Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Mordusian Revolutional Party
Status[?]: passed
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: September 2070
Description[?]:
| This act calls for a change for defendant's rights by asking of an amendment to our laws. This act proposes that a defendant with low income should be provided funded representation becuase they cannot afford one. It is absolutely ludacris how we could be the only nation who's states do not fund low income defendants in the criminal justice system in the entire world. Every other nation funds they're defendants somehow. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government provision of legal aid to the accused.
Old value:: Legal representation is never 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 for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state for defendants with low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:17:26, June 21, 2005 CET | From | People's National Party | To | Debating the Defendant's Representation Rights Act |
| Message | Once again this is a further waste of taxpauers money. Why should law-abiding citizens have to foot the legal bills for criminals? Maybe they should not have committed the crime if they could not afford to pay for their legal costs... |
| Date | 23:36:15, June 21, 2005 CET | From | Mordusian Revolutional Party | To | Debating the Defendant's Representation Rights Act |
| Message | What if the low income person being accused is innocent, but can't afford representation? People's National Party, you must see the larger picture hear. |
| Date | 23:48:17, June 21, 2005 CET | From | Mordusian Revolutional Party | To | Debating the Defendant's Representation Rights Act |
| Message | The fact is, thsi nation is a democracy. Therefore, its justice system should rely onthe motto "innocent until proven guilty". There is no telling whether the man had committed the crime until after the courts have reached their verdicts. An innocent man deserves representation when being accused. If this is a real democracy, every man is innocent until proven guilty, PNP. That means every man deserves representation, EVEN if he cant afford one. |
| Date | 00:58:31, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Millennial Salvation Front | To | Debating the Defendant's Representation Rights Act |
| Message | We should restore this legal protection for our least-fortunate citizens. It is our duty as moral beings and as citizens of this Federal Republic. |
| Date | 01:53:53, June 22, 2005 CET | From | International Socialist Party | To | Debating the Defendant's Representation Rights Act |
| Message | It is an embarrassment to our country that we are the only which fails to give any support to our most disadvantaged citizens at a stressful time such as this . Therefor the International Socialist Party would like to give its full support to this bill. |
| Date | 20:06:53, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Plinio's United Followers | To | Debating the Defendant's Representation Rights Act |
| Message | We agree with the PNP. |
| Date | 07:49:14, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Mordusian Inclusion Party | To | Debating the Defendant's Representation Rights Act |
| Message | The MInP supports the legal rights of all citizens, not just those who are wealthy. With the current system, any rich man can plant evidence of a crime on a poor man, and the poor one will have little to no chance of being found innocent, and thus would have to serve the sentence for the rich man's crimes. This is not justice. While the MInP supports tough sentences on criminals, they must be applied to those who actually committed the crimes. The MInP will be voting yes. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 124 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 80 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 46 |
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