Hello ! I'm a Frenchman living in France (I did never lived elsewhere) who was never put in a court and I'd like to know which members of this forum was already judged in a court.
I think it can be fun to share ours stories with the judicial system.

If you was already judged in a court I'd like to know the next infos.

1.What was the charge(s) against you ?
2.In which country did it happened and if in USA or another federal country with its own judicial system which state / province ?
3.Was you convicted , discharged or charges were dismissed ?
4.Can you tell us your arrest , the judgement and indictment if there was one ?
5.What was the maximum penalty you were facing and what was your penalty ?

viocjit wrote:I'd like to know the next infos.

In a PM, send me your bank account details including your date of birth and other registration details, and a facsimile of your signature, and I will give you a full account of a certain variety of white-collar crime. You can always give false information, if you are nervous about internet scams.



[No, seriously: I'd be just tickled pink to tell you all about my brush with the law, but I might be lying about some facts and embellishing details in other parts of the story.]

Yeah! Conviction! Judgement! Courts!

Family lore has it that a great-great-uncle of mine was caught in the attempt to commit suicide. He was hauled in front of the beak, found guilty, and the maximum sentence was handed down: death by hanging.

Personally, I don't believe it. I come from a family of inveterate cowards. He was probably caught running away from enemy fire during the battle of Sedan in 1870 and almost summarily executed. Having a family member in our midst who was hanged for trying to commit suicide is just much less embarrassing than having a deserter, during a battle, moreover, that was so convincingly won by us Prussians.

He was a descendant of the Baron von Münchhausen, by the way, which enabled him to escape death by jumping onto an errant cannon ball and flying to Moscow.

Closest I have ever been to court was a housing tribunal hearing over a deposit I withheld from tenants.
Basically they won on a technicality, though they were 100% morally wrong.
They gave me 3 days notice before vacating, leaving me unable to find tenants for the next month.
The sick thing is they did this deliberately, because they spotted a bad clause in the contract that gave them an excuse.
They waited until they had confirmation that they could move into the property they were buying at the end of the month, in case it didn't come through, before telling me about it. This left their options open and shut down mine.

The thing to learn from this is that the wording of what is on paper overrules everything else, even when it is blatantly clear it is the wrong thing to apply, if it can be applied to forward someone's case it will be.

Oh dear. I must apologise for misreading the opening post. Or rather missing an important point. The one that asks for members' own convictions. To make amends, here is mine: It is my conviction - one that will probably cast a shadow on the rest of my life - that too many people have a kangaroo loose in the top paddock.

Well :immensely deep breath: .....na.

Keep It Real wrote:Well :immensely deep breath: .....na.

My conviction is that there aren't going to be too many serious posts on this thread.

ETA: Apols to Hermit for copying his gag.

Keep It Real wrote:Well :immensely deep breath: .....na.

Yeah, it might be a cop fishing for confessions

I done told the trufe, tha hole trufe and nowt but the trufe already. KIR innit!

I will say this much - Crown Court judges are very striking in apparel and mannerisms - pretty well exuding eccentricity from every pore. Who can blame them given their unique and bizarre position of power? Not I.

What I like about courts most is the discipline. I am like .. cmon chill. But no.

FIrst thing I thought when reading the OP was 'bloody cheek'. So I'll eschew the invitation to reveal criminal convictions to strangers, and just mention my ancestor who was transported from Ireland to Australia for petty larceny. Ahh, such laughs...

Reminds me of Pappilon - oh how we laughed, falling off our chairs at one point....oh no just thinking about it I'm...I'm...

I beat a speeding ticket by making the cop come to court. He lied, I told the truth ...the judge believed me over the strenuous objection of the prosecutor....she was still arguing with the judge when I left.

Bloody traffic prosecutors just want to cut a deal and take your money ....but you are still left with a conviction to the pleasure of the insurance companies who raise premiums.

Best to fight it ...sometimes the cop doesn't show. There are lots of step by step advisories and forums on how to beat a traffic ticket.

Pathetic.

I havent been arrested for least I2 years. I havent had a drink for least 3 years and I slowly started to reduce my alcohol consumption after 2000. I have never been arrested sober just drunk so not drinking is a no brainer. But even if I were to start drinking again it would not be as regular as it was before 2000. I have been arrested at least I4 times but have zero intention of ever getting arrested again. I was young. I did stupid things. I blame no one but myself. I am older and wiser
now and a different person to the one back then. I have no desire ever to see the inside of a police cell again. For that is
a young mans game but I am old now and have to put all that shit behind me and do something more positive with my life

I've never been convicted of anything. But if they dig up that basement floor I'm done for.

I once got arrested for walking out of a shop with a chocolate bar by mistake. They brought me back in and put me in a room to wait for the police, and while I was there, I ate it. The perfect crime!!!