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December 8, 2008
crime
Theda writes:


Taking payment for goods not provided from across state lines between the states of Florida and Indiana.

If I wanted to report such a crime to the local police dept of the deceiver / seller, what crime shall I accuse them of?
I bought an item from the person. Sent payment. He/she never sent it and has not replied to inquiries. Enough time has elapsed to consider it a fraud.
Payment was less than $100.
Thanks.
My payment has been confirmed PAID to the seller.



December 8, 2008
crime
Earlene writes:


And what is the typical punishment for such a crime?

Does it matter how old, or what condition, the car is in?



crime
Keven writes:


Is crime within races,or against majority races/ethnicities performed out of love? And why should the criminal in a **** crime be punished anymore than a criminal in a non **** crime? Why should the punishment be based upon the victim instead of the crime?
Regarding the first answer, I just can’t imagine the government deciding the way crimes affect people. As a white woman, if I’m ***** by a white man, it may ruin my marriage. I may fear men altogether after that, and could never be intimate with another man. Different people are different regarding the way they handle things, and I don’t think it’s fair that just because I’m white, I get passed over as saying, “oh, she’ll be fine”, compared to someone of a different ethnicity. All crime should be looked at as “hate crime”. There should be severe punishment for it all. All crime is committed out of hate, wether it’s racial or personal. From a humane point of view, it’s not fair to the criminals for one to get worse treatment than another just because of who the victim was. And from a moral point of view, criminals need to know there are consequences to their actions, so they should all be punished to the fullest extent of the law dependent upon their actions.



crime
Jeanna writes:


I know the acquittal is supposed to appear in the newspaper but how do is the defendant notified. After an acquittal, does this mean the arrest & the crime never happened? When you are asked if you’ve ever been arrested for a crime can you answer “no”?



crime
Jennell writes:


My brother recently discovered that his juvenile son and his son’s friend threw some eggs at cars being driven on one of the local roads here in King County, Washington State. The incident happened 6-months ago during a holiday break. The kid is in trouble, but from a legal standpoint, what is the crime, and what is the statue of limitations on this type of an offense?



December 6, 2008
crime
Karon writes:


I’ve recently had my mobile stolen in Spain, i reported it to the police and have been given a crime reference number, but the statement is totally in Spanish. Do insurers have to check the statement to pay out?



crime
Jorge writes:


Isn’t every crime, in some way, a hateful act towards the victim? Sure you have the standard definition, which is basically an attack on someone for their identity alone, but do you think that is worse than another reason?

Do you think a person that kills/robs/violates a person for the heck of it should be punished less or the same as a person that did the same to a person because of their race/religion/sexual orientation/etc? Why?



December 3, 2008
crime
Azucena writes:


My area:

People are divided into white, black, asian, arab, and hispanic.
Only the hispanic group is flexible, being both white and hispanic depending on the situation:
When a “hate” crime is committed against a hispanic, he is considered white. When he commits a ‘hate” crime he is considered a minority/hispanic.

This artifically inflates the instances of **** crimes against whites while keeping our numbers down as the offenders.
Info came from the school board.
DA’s office said that calculate it the same way when they were asked.



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