Mexican Justice - iAy Caramba
Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 11:15
Posted by Marcel Strigberger
Unfortunately Canadian Citizen Brenda Martin has been languishing in a Mexican jail for over two years now without being charged. She was a chef in Mexico for some investor who supposedly pulled off a fraud. This I suppose is a good enough reason for the Mexican authorities to arrest her and keep her in this state of limbo.
You follow these rules of law and all your legal problems go adios.
There are suggestions we are reading about in the newspapers that the justice system works a bit different in that country than it does in Canada and that had she had proper legal advice and followed the proper legal protocol, she would have been a free woman ages ago. I do not know specifics but the suggestions about how the Mexican legal system works seem to be along the following lines:
Legal Problem | Legal Answer |
Causing a motor vehicle accident while under the influence | Pay each attending police officer $200.00. If you’re really loaded, throw in a bottle of Tequila. |
Shoplifting | Pay store security guard $100.00. If police arrive quickly snatch the money out of the security guard’s hands and give it to the cops. |
Assault | When police arrive at the scene, tell them the guy you just punched out waved a gun at you. Pay each officer $300 and they’ll charge the other guy with carrying a dangerous weapon. For another $50 each they’ll also beat him up. |
You are charged and facing trial | Give an envelope with a $1000 to a senior court clerk to deliver to the judge. IMPORTANT: Make sure you give the clerk an envelope with $100 for his efforts. |
You are actually convicted of a charge | File a Notice of Appeal. Cost is $125.00 filing fee plus another $500 in cash to the court registrar to make sure he shreds the conviction records. $625.00 to win an appeal; not bad. |
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