{"id":895,"date":"2021-04-21T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_4441\/v1\/?p=895"},"modified":"2021-04-30T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T10:18:10","slug":"the-dilettante-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_4441\/v1\/the-dilettante-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dilettante Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week reported on the plight of 52-year-old Fulton County resident Linda Ford and what the paper described as an \u201coutlandish\u201d fine that had been imposed by Grantville Municipal Court Judge Lisa R. Reeves. The woman repeatedly tried to pay the fine at once, but she just missed a deadline\u2026 To understand how the case unfolded, let\u2019s roll back to the last fall, when Ms. Ford\u2019s troubles began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was then, when on an unfortunate occasion she\u2019s been driving past the local police department building, as the Grantville, TX police officer pulled her over and accused of missing a plate.Facebook<\/a>Twitter<\/a>Google+<\/a>LinkedIn<\/a>Pinterest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As recently as this month, we\u2019ve stumbled upon a curious legal case study. It all started with a Texas municipal court judg fining a woman with $1,590 for a missing decal on her car license plate \u2026 Though just a few days after, the judge has obviously changed her mind about the penalty and its amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17,18],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-for-business-litigation","tag-legal","tag-litigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_4441\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_4441\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_4441\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_4441\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_4441\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_4441\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_4441\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_4441\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_4441\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ld-wp73.template-help.com\/wordpress\/prod_4441\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}