Space Law, Court Proceedings and Lawyer

[AbleRip]

This may be a bit tricky then as the library does not work. We would have to code in the law book manually. That or have a link added to the forums where the laws actually are.

[crystalwarrior]

So why don't we come up with our own Space Law? The one that makes most sense?
Let's do it right here and think up something good.
Another huge problem in the court proceedings lays in the fact that nobody knows how to proceed with the court correctly; there's absolutely no court laws whatsoever. Evidence law? Proceeding laws? Rights of prosecution, defence? Nothing is documented, and we should definitely change that.

[derpthestewpidgoat]

May 4, 2014 13:24:07 GMT -5 crystalwarrior said:

Nothing is documented, and we should definitely change that.

Jesus Christ are we gonna go back to the era where wanting to be promoted from assistant to janitor had you asking everyone and their mother for permission then filling out an outrageous contract then having all heads stamp that contract?

[crystalwarrior]

yes please!1!111

[Name Changing Autist]

May 4, 2014 13:24:07 GMT -5 crystalwarrior said:

So why don't we come up with our own Space Law? The one that makes most sense?

I haven't actually used space law for brig times in a long time, I find it better just to go off what you think is right, whether the criminal had any justification and if the criminal has committed crimes before.

[Marde]

If you want space law, write it for us.

[AbleRip]

Well we might want to classify laws into groups A,B,C,D,E felonies. 'A' being crimes along the lines of murder and traitor-ism which would land people in perma or on death row. While E being a minor thing like stealing a common item which would be like a 1-3 minute sentence. This will be a lot easier then saying 'his past crimes put him in for 7 minutes'.Not sure if anyone is familiar with these kind of classifications as I live in New York and our law system is fucked to hell. If anyone is interested in certain crimes like what they mean and what is their original ranking I actually got a law book.

[Nokington]

I do the same thing as Necro, as I'm sure that no one will end up following the new space law because no one wants to spend 2 hours in court just because an assistant threw a pie at the Captain(this really happened and it was terrible).

[AbleRip]

May 4, 2014 23:37:14 GMT -5 Nokington said:

I do the same thing as Necro, as I'm sure that no one will end up following the new space law because no one wants to spend 2 hours in court just because an assistant threw a pie at the Captain(this really happened and it was terrible).

Who won?

[Nokington]

It ended with the Captain over ruling it because a xeno came.

[derpthestewpidgoat]

May 4, 2014 23:37:14 GMT -5 Nokington said:

I do the same thing as Necro, as I'm sure that no one will end up following the new space law because no one wants to spend 2 hours in court just because an assistant threw a pie at the Captain(this really happened and it was terrible).

I'm guessing Bay?

[NotFoos]

May 5, 2014 7:50:10 GMT -5 Nokington said:

It ended with the Captain over ruling it because a xeno came.

I imagine it could have gone 2 more hours if a xeno hadn't. How do you even draw out a court case that long?

Captain Comdom McComdom says: HE THREW A FUCKING PIE AT ME FOR THE 500TH WHY WONT ANYONE LISTEN TO ME?
Clown Huenk says: No I didn't HONK!
repeat x1000

At least this is how I imagined it. 

[Nokington]

May 5, 2014 18:16:04 GMT -5 derpthestewpidgoat said:

May 4, 2014 23:37:14 GMT -5 Nokington said:

I do the same thing as Necro, as I'm sure that no one will end up following the new space law because no one wants to spend 2 hours in court just because an assistant threw a pie at the Captain(this really happened and it was terrible).

I'm guessing Bay?

You guessed wrong. It was FPS13. Not even joking. I log into the round to the lawyer(admin) calling for a judge so I went and did it. We sat in there arguing for at least 2 hours. Then DFD came in as I think a Jeanstealer and the captain called the shuttle.

[Nokington]

May 5, 2014 18:39:11 GMT -5 NotFoos said:

May 5, 2014 7:50:10 GMT -5 Nokington said:

It ended with the Captain over ruling it because a xeno came.

I imagine it could have gone 2 more hours if a xeno hadn't. How do you even draw out a court case that long?

Captain Comdom McComdom says: HE THREW A FUCKING PIE AT ME FOR THE 500TH WHY WONT ANYONE LISTEN TO ME?
Clown Huenk says: No I didn't HONK!
repeat x1000

At least this is how I imagined it. 

Pretty fucking much.

[Marde]

The problem with space law and security in general is that most crimes are essentially "He said, she said". Unless there is a witness or someone who can easily find out who did what; some crimes are just not worth arresting for and a lot of officers know that. In the case of what Nokington said; it is just an endless battle between the two parties. However going off of hearsay can result in some -interesting- situations.

I recall around the time I started playing there was a Botanist who was in Botany and a Scientist ran in; stayed for 5 seconds and ran out. Botanist proceeds to break all the windows in Botany and emptied the botany lockers into a disposal without being seen by anyone, and calls security and tells them the Scientist did it. Scientist gets arrested for breaking and entering, theft, and trespassing. Scientist serves his time, returns to R&D. Botanist breaks in. Botanist picks up an air tank and stands near the Scientist and starts killing himself; but not before uttering "Help, Scientist from earlier killing me in RD!!". Scientist refutes the claims, security arrives and the Scientist is permabrigged anyway. Botanist gets cloned. Scientist keeps calling security shitcurity the rest of the round.