Drunk drivers in this state will now have to pay child support if they kill a parent, guardian
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A new law in Texas requires convicted drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a child’s parent or guardian, according to House Bill 393.The law, whic...

New law in Texas will make drunk drivers who murder parent or guardian to pay child support to the child of the deceased until the child is 18 years old.

  • baseless_discourse@mander.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think I have two question about this:

    First, in this hyper capitalistic society, isn’t everything bad for the poor, from the legal system to democracy itself. For example you can argue the poor lacks the time and resource to properly understand the policy, hence more likely to be misled by the candidate.

    And in this specific cases, the public can pay for it if the person is poor enough, like declaring bankrupt. I am not so familiar with the procedure and loopholes related to bankrupt, so feel free to educate me on that.

    On the other hand, I don’t think rich people should be able to get away from jail time simply because they have paid money. Unfortunately this is seen through out our legal system. So I am definitely not supporting that. But I imagine the law can be easily changed to add the child care/medicare cost to the existing manslaughter sentence, instead of replacing the manslaughter sentence?

    • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Mostly you are just pointing out the systemic issues of late stage capitalism.

      But as for sentencing: judges have an insane amount of power in that regard. And they are often biased shitbags who will do everything in their power to be lenient to “pillars of the community”. So if you give them a meaningless punishment, they’ll immediately use that and then talk about how it is important to rehabilitate rich white people and that excessive punishment is not the law.