{"id":80995,"date":"2022-03-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80995"},"modified":"2022-03-01T10:14:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:14:17","slug":"more-faster-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80995","title":{"rendered":"More, Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Idaho bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahostatesman.com\/news\/northwest\/idaho\/article258657833.html\">would require prosectors to reimburse people with successful self-defense claims<\/a>, whom they opt to prosecute anyway:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If enacted, the legislation would require the county or prosecuting state agency where the person was charged with a crime to reimburse the defendant for \u201call reasonable costs\u201d if they are found not guilty by reason of self defense. Reasonable costs would include lost wages, the costs of any lost business opportunities and legal costs including bail, expert witness fees, attorney&#8217;s bills and other expenses. The bill also includes a \u201csafety net\u201d to protect defendants if they are sued by victim in a self-defense case, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s intended to provide consequences for the sort of malicious, specious prosecution of people like Kyle Rittenhouse &#8211; cases with lots of political <em>sturm und drang <\/em>but little to no actual evidence of unjustifiable homicide. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho bill would require prosectors to reimburse people with successful self-defense claims, whom they opt to prosecute anyway: If enacted, the legislation would require the county or prosecuting state agency where the person was charged with a crime to reimburse the defendant for \u201call reasonable costs\u201d if they are found not guilty by reason of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,30,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-crime-and-punishment","category-liberty","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80996,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80995\/revisions\/80996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}